![]() ![]() These were the first words Edmund Hillary said on meeting teammate George Lowe, after he and Tenzing Norgay became the first men to reach the top of Everest, the world’s highest mountain. "Well, George, we knocked the bastard off." I’ve spent much of my adult life attempting activities that were seem as profoundly masculine, where women were scarce or absent, and I've discovered that there is a lot we can do to fight past the ‘man’s world’ myth. A lot of women heard the news with the sinking feeling of having it confirmed, yet again, that we live in ‘a man’s world’. I’d hoped to be writing something this month in celebration of Madam President-elect but that path has taken a very different turn. ![]()
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