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  • Are You a Feminist?

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    Peggy Hagerty Duffy
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    What Does That Even Mean? Are you a feminist?  What exactly does that mean? And is it important to you to identify yourself as such? Megyn Kelly, former Fox News host and current NBC news personality, was widely derided in 2016 by her refusal to label herself as a feminist.  She stated that the term…

  • Bought and Paid For

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    Peggy Hagerty Duffy
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    How Do We Ignore the Voices That Say We’re Not Enough? A couple of weeks before Christmas, I was watching TV and a trailer for the movie “Hidden Figures” came on.  A man in the movie asked Janelle Monae if she would want to try to become an engineer if she were a man, and…