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From Feminist Activist to Professor

In: A Journey into Women’s Studies

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  • Drude Dahlerup

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The first, and possibly the most important, confrontation I had was with biologism. In 1960, when I completed secondary school in Denmark, year 10 was still divided into mathematics for the boys and what was commonly called “girls’ arithmetic.” After all, girls had not been naturally blessed with mathematical abilities, it was thought, and, consequently, there were very few girls in the mathematics class at upper secondary school. Girls were going to work in shops or to sit in offices until they got married, so what they needed was mental arithmetic.

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  • Drude Dahlerup, 2014. "From Feminist Activist to Professor," Gender, Development and Social Change, in: Rekha Pande (ed.), A Journey into Women’s Studies, chapter 5, pages 75-100, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:gdechp:978-1-137-39574-0_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137395740_6
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