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What does it mean?
A woman's place includes home and family, but also requires financial, personal freedom, and the right to vote.
In plain terms
Home life should include freedom and voting rights.
What can you take from it?
Domestic life and political rights are not mutually exclusive.

Where it applies

  • family life
  • political rights
  • personal choice

Putting it to work

  • support women's voting rights
  • value domestic contributions

Questions to consider

  • Can home life and public rights coexist?
  • What defines a woman's place?

Another view

This view still centers home as the primary place for women.

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