When my great-grandmother was born in the early 1900s, women couldn’t vote in a national election. She was barely expected to finish high school, and the idea that she could attend college was pure fantasy—practically unheard of for a woman then. She was considered a pioneer at the time because she had the gall to divorce her husband. And later, when she took a job as a secretary she was quite literally propositioned daily and chased around the desk by male managers.
