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A few hundred years ago, the great thinkers of the Enlightenment began to declare that \\u201call men are created equal.\\u201d Some of them said that notion should include women, too. Why did those\\xa0feminists\\u2014most of them men, by the way\\u2014lose the fight? How did the patriarchy survive the Enlightenment?
\\n\\nCo-hosts John Biewen and Celeste Headlee look into these questions, with historians Londa Schiebinger of Stanford and Toby Ditz of Johns Hopkins, and sociologist Lisa Wade of Occidental College.
\\n\\nMusic by Alex Weston, and by Evgueni and Sacha Galperine. Music and production help from Joe Augustine at Narrative Music.
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