Tanya Young
Joined October 2017
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Bio
Third Wave Feminist, Peabody Award winner, Ms. Foundation delegate to the U.N. 4th World Conference on Women, DNCC Credentials Supervisor - foreign diplomatic corps, Board Member - Manhattan Neighborhood Network, Stonewall Democratic Club
Stories (3/0)
The Strange Career of Jill Crow – Part 1
There was a time in America when women were neither the breadwinners nor a large part of the workforce. The cult of domesticity dictated that women stay at home and not work outside of the home. This durable philosophy of “true womanhood” further ordained that women should be more religious than men — pure of heart, mind, and body, as well as submissive to the men in their lives. We were not allowed to vote, own property or have credit of our own.
By Tanya Young6 years ago in The Swamp