Letter: Women deserve equal treatment throughout history
ISSUE | GENDER EQUALITY Women deserve credit throughout history My praise to the Inquirer for its March 20 commentaries about Lucretia Coffin Mott, a 19th-century Philadelphia abolitionist, women's rights advocate, minister, and homemaker ("A worthy substitute for Hamilton"), and about America's tradition of ignoring women's contributions ("In the name of fairness, don't erase women's history").
ISSUE | GENDER EQUALITY
Women deserve credit throughout history
My praise to the Inquirer for its March 20 commentaries about Lucretia Coffin Mott, a 19th-century Philadelphia abolitionist, women's rights advocate, minister, and homemaker ("A worthy substitute for Hamilton"), and about America's tradition of ignoring women's contributions ("In the name of fairness, don't erase women's history").
Including women's achievements in our everyday writing and teaching of history, instead of artificially designating the 31 days of March as something called Women's History Month, would be a sensible step toward the equality so many of us seek. That goal was ably defined by commentary writers William C. Kashatus and Janet Benton.
|Lynn H. Yeakel, director, Institute for Women's Health and Leadership,
Drexel University, Philadelphia
