zabadoh@ani.social to Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agoGrandmother, 88, barred from graduating college due to pregnancy clinches diploma at Maine university 60 years laternypost.comexternal-linkmessage-square13linkfedilinkarrow-up1213arrow-down15cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1208arrow-down1external-linkGrandmother, 88, barred from graduating college due to pregnancy clinches diploma at Maine university 60 years laternypost.comzabadoh@ani.social to Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agomessage-square13linkfedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareBuffalox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down3·edit-26 days ago barred from graduating college due to pregnancy WTF? Here we had and have programs to help women in that situation! USA is such a shitty country.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·edit-26 days agoIt was 1959 and it was because the schools wouldn’t let her be a student teacher, a requirement for graduation which is… Very 1959 America.
minus-squareBuffalox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down2·6 days agoOK then the headline is wrong, because 2025 -60 is 1965. Incredibly backwards 20 years after WW2 where women became way more accepted in work and education. Anyways congratulations and kudos to her for taking it now. 👍
WTF?
Here we had and have programs to help women in that situation!
USA is such a shitty country.
It was 1959 and it was because the schools wouldn’t let her be a student teacher, a requirement for graduation which is…
Very 1959 America.
OK then the headline is wrong, because 2025 -60 is 1965.
Incredibly backwards 20 years after WW2 where women became way more accepted in work and education.
Anyways congratulations and kudos to her for taking it now. 👍