| The great thing about Equality Day is that it works in two ways. We can mull both how far we ve come and how far we have to go. The one thought feeds the other. The idea of having 50 women in the U.S. Senate, or 250 female C.E.O. s in the Fortune 500 seems less far-reaching if you contemplate the fact that in the 1960s, a spokesman for NASA said "talk of an American spacewoman makes me sick to my stomach. Now, one of the two American astronauts on the International Space Station is a woman, and that is so routine that we re not even aware of her name. (It s Karen Nyberg.) |
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