Fun Facts: Women in the 1920s

Katya's Fun Facts: Women in the 1920s

In England, a scant decade before Elizabeth would have attended college, effigies of women were being burned in Cambridge to protest a proposal to grant degrees to women (Cambridge had admitted women as students for some years at that point in the Newnham and Girton colleges, but had not yet granted them degrees.) The measure failed several times before it finally passed after a storm of controversy and incidents which included a lot of suffragettes breaking windows. Rancor against, and belittlement of, women's education persisted in England well past the era in which our adventurers presently find themselves.

Meanwhile, in 1920's Russia, the sight of women doctors was becoming increasingly common as the profession became more and more open to women, a tradition which has carried to the present day, as is evidenced by the fact that Russia has a higher percentage of women doctors than nearly any other nation on earth.

Of course, this may be in part do to the fact that, due to cultural and historical differences, doctors are regarded in many parts of Russia with the same degree of respect that janitors are viewed in most of America. Katya tends to gloss over this addendum, and denounces it as a counterrevolutionary lies when it is brought up.

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