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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Free Expression with Jerry Baker.

Hello and welcome to free expression from the opinion page of the Wall Street Journal.

I'm Jerry Baker, editor-at-large of the journal.

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to leave us a nice review. This week, we're going to talk about women. Women can't live

with them, can't live without them as a famous, rather masculine joke used to have it. Well,

since Adam first blamed Eve for handing him that apple, the role and authority of women has been a somewhat controversial

one, especially for men, and of course, I suppose, also for women. It was the 16th century

Scottish Protestant zealot John Knox, who wrote the famous first blast of the trumpet against

the monstrous regiment of women. That was about the role of

women monarchs of queens that he was strongly against. And especially so, I guess especially

since then and throughout human history, the idea of women having power in society, having

beyond the traditional child-rearing family role, has been somewhat controversial, as I say. But of course,

in the last 50 years, we've undergone a social revolution. Those ideas that were once controversial

have become absolutely consensual. Society as a whole now seems to have accepted that women

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