• late_night@sopuli.xyz
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    27 days ago

    Grandmother, 88, clinches diploma at Maine university 60 years after she was barred from graduating college due to pregnancy.

    Ftfy

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      27 days ago

      barred from graduating college due to pregnancy

      WTF?

      Here we had and have programs to help women in that situation!

      USA is such a shitty country.

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        27 days ago

        It was 1959 and it was because the schools wouldn’t let her be a student teacher, a requirement for graduation which is…

        Very 1959 America.

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          OK then the headline is wrong, because 2025 -60 is 1965.
          Incredibly backwards 20 years after WW2 where women became way more accepted in work and education.

          Anyways congratulations and kudos to her for taking it now. 👍