Gender issues in the Alps
Recent talk of gender issues reminds me of the time I told my Swiss grandfather I was applying to college and he asked: "Why the hell would you want to do that? What do you want to be... a professor? Better marry a man with 20 cows." He clearly did not see the value in a woman being educated.
Fifteen years later, after our move to the Swiss Alps in 2002,…
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