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FABULOUS & TRUE: I LIVED THRU IT. MORE STORIES ABOUT WOMEN'S BATTLES NEED TO BE TOLD!!!
FABULOUS AND TRUE. SEASON 2 CANT COME SOON ENUF!!!!!! As a woman, I was "liberated" a couple years before this story begins in 1969. As an anti-war activist, the men took all the credit while the women did most of the work..and were, except for a few, were not mentioned in the history of the times. But I lived thru this period. As an insurance claims adjuster, I did similar work as the men, often given the most complicated cases, and got paid less than 1/3 what they were paid. I had to have a college degree...the men did not . Even into the 1980s after I became an excellent computer programmer and top flight systems analyst. THEY WOULDN'T pay me the same as the men because they, I was told flat out, had families to raise and I didn't. My computer programs, for the largest bank in New York State, NEVER failed in production...NOT ONCE!!! But I was regularly called in, even in the dead of night, even once on New Year's Eve to fix the programs the men wrote that failed in production. But they still paid me a lot less than the men. As the state coordinator and therefore one of the founders of the Green Party of California in the 1990s, I and all the other women but one were written out its history. This series is so right on!!! Congratulations on telling the truth. I hope this generation of women and next understand all WE have done up to now to get what we should have. I hope this generation and the next understands there is still a fight, a war to be won for women to have full equality...as well as people of color and indigenous peoples.
October 2016 · Movies and TV · verified purchase