The Importance of a Woman's Voice

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The paper discusses how there have been many reasons for the lack of voice of women in history. The paper explains that the most common of them, that women were seen as lacking somehow in intelligence in comparison to men, has been with us for many generations. Women's words have also been suppressed due to religious tenets, societal norms and the belief that the act of writing text is outside the realm of acceptable for their sex. The paper discusses how despite all of the oppression they have faced, women have found a way to write to express their voices.

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"Name a famous woman author and it is very likely that she was not given much credibility in her own time. For generations, women's writings were treated with amused tolerance by their families, particularly their fathers and husbands. Women writers were forced to hide behind men's names, either by submitting their work through men willing to assist them or by using a male pseudonym. Some women, convinced that no one would ever be interested in their work, wrote on scraps of paper and hid their words in drawers. Never mind a room of their own; throughout history women have not always been given the opportunity to have a voice of their own. There have been many reasons for this lack of voice. The most common of them, that women are lacking somehow in intelligence in comparison to men, has been with us for many generations."

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