Were ancient Egyptians the first feminists?

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 27 April 2009

⏱️ 16 minutes

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When Herodotus explored Egypt, he was startled by the contradictory gender roles -- women were doing tasks the Greeks restricted to males. Does this mean the Egyptians were the first feminists? Learn more in this podcast from HowStuffWorks.com.

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0:30.7	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, from HowstuffWorks.com.
0:35.8	Hello and welcome to the podcast.
0:44.8	I'm editor Candice Keener, I'm by staff writer Jane McGraft.
0:47.8	Hey there Candice!
0:48.8	Hey Jane, you know it's funny, I feel like we keep rehashing the same theme over and over,
0:53.4	but it's just so interesting.
0:55.3	The formula is, someone Greek comes over to Egypt or Africa and sees that things are
1:01.5	different and then goes back home and tells people about it.
1:04.8	Are you getting it since the day of your two?
1:07.3	Yeah definitely.
1:08.3	And we're talking about Herodidus and he is a Greek who came over about the fifth century
1:14.1	to Egypt and he noticed something really interesting and that was that the women were
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