A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.
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“The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.”
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