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Thank you, Justice Roberts, for all that you have done for women over the course of your career! It is because of you that we are even having this discussion -- that younger women don't necessarily see the need for feminism as a movement toward equal treatment and rights.

Growing up, I never saw or heard a woman news anchor on TV or radio. Images of women in the media were never professionals. I didn't know of women doctors, lawyers, dentists, carpenters, steel workers, mayors, governors, and only a very rare Congressperson. My teenage daughters are astonished to hear this. Thank you for reminding us of how far we have come, and of how much there is yet to do.

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