# We've come a long way: The Ladies' Lament in 1893

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**Created:** [December 3, 2011, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-come-a-long-way-the-ladies-lament-in-1893/604909 "2011-12-03T00:49:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-come-a-long-way-the-ladies-lament-in-1893/604909/1 "2011-12-03T00:49:30Z")

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## We’ve come a long way: The Ladies’ Lament in 1893

[![](https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...BG18930625.jpg) ](https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...BG18930625.jpg)  
(courtesy of Lizzie Borden Society- from Boston Globe, 1893)

Just a century ago, the only way women could get ahead was to marry to get some semblance of property ownership.

Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman: stressing that women were only perceived as dumb because the lack of opportunity of an education. This was 200 years ago.

I think I saw that more women than men are in college now. Heck some professional degrees, there are substantially more women then men now than ever : pharmacy and veterinary science  
I looked at a family friend’s nephew medical school class picture from overseas; about 80% female students in the class

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**Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-come-a-long-way-the-ladies-lament-in-1893/604909/2 "2011-12-03T01:18:54Z")

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> [@smokey78](#):
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> ## We’ve come a long way: The Ladies’ Lament in 1893
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> [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...BG18930625.jpg](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...BG18930625.jpg)  
> (courtesy of Lizzie Borden Society- from Boston Globe, 1893)  
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**Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-come-a-long-way-the-ladies-lament-in-1893/604909/3 "2011-12-03T01:53:55Z")

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[![](https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v61/harwid/BG18930625.jpg) ](https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v61/harwid/BG18930625.jpg)  
Boston Globe 1893