Tag Archives: International Woman’s Day

Strength, achievement, and token gestures

Posted on March 7, 2019 by Peter Kruschwitz

Phaedrus, a writer of fables in the style of Aesop in the first century A. D., tells the following tale (Phaedrus 4.17, transl. B. E. Perry): De capris barbatis Barbam capellae cum impetrassent ab Iove, hirci maerentes indignari coeperunt quod … Continue reading →

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If they win on this point, what then will they not try…?

Posted on March 8, 2018 by Peter Kruschwitz

In 195 B. C., Rome’s women had had enough. It had been for almost exactly twenty years that, due to a decision taken in 215 B. C., at the height of the Second Punic War, their right to possess, and … Continue reading →

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Seneca on Gender Equality

Posted on March 8, 2016 by Peter Kruschwitz

It is a common trope in present-day discourse that feminism and the enforcement of gender equality are destroying the very foundations of our societies and ultimately ruining everything for us, to the detriment of those who seek equality in the … Continue reading →

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