Notoriously Indebted
I am jumping forward to today. Recently, we all experienced a pivotal moment in American history - the death of Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. We all benefit today from her lifetime of fighting for gender equality. I'd like to take a moment to reflect on how much progress was made in my lifetime. When I was in high school, home economics and typing were required courses for girls - to give us the skills to run a home and make a living as a secretary if we weren't fortunate enough to marry right out of school. Boys were required to take either auto shop or wood shop so they could become good breadwinners for their families. This was the accepted norm and for the most part it worked. On my old manual typewriter, I was able to type 70 words per minute with fewer than 5 errors in a 5-minute time trial. I was at 110 words per minute on the school's IBM Selectric typewriters, which looking back on it, were amazing pieces of modern equipment for my little school to have....