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Olive Byrne's Golden Line
I chose this golden line because most men believed in how their education was more significant than women's since they were most likely to drop out for several reasons. Some of these women were encouraged to quit since there were so many people in their graduate programs. Considering how men had more rights, they did not want to see women be superior than them. Olive Byrne is one of many women who dropped out from the Ph.D. program at Columbia, after completing her masters and almost completing all the requirements for her doctorate. Byrne ends up quitting but had a very differential reason into why she did not complete the requirements and this was because she had to take care of a baby who wasn’t hers. Marston made an agreement with his
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