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Anna Howard Shaw Quotes: Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.
         

Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.


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Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.
         



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