What shocked me when I started reading early feminist texts was how recent everything feels. Women couldn’t open bank accounts. They couldn’t keep wages from their own jobs. Even the idea that their labor had value was radical. The rise of feminism was, at its heart, a fight to name women’s work— in homes, in fields, in factories— as real, as worthy, as indispensable. When a society tells half its people their effort is invisible, the fight for recognition is not just political. It is survival. #Entertainment #Books #Feminism #Work #WomenHistory