Welcome to Tuesday Trivia!

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Come share the cool stuff you love about the past!

We do not allow posts based on personal or relatives' anecdotes. Brief and short answers are allowed but MUST be properly sourced to respectable literature. All other rules also apply—no bigotry, current events, and so forth.

For this round, let’s look at: Women's rights! For this round, let’s look at women's rights throughout history. Tell us about the cultural context or historiography around rights of 51% of the population in the societies you study. How has the idea of 'rights' shifted over time? What did power for women look like in times and places where it appears to the modern eye they had little power? (Trivia about individual women is coming up later this month! So hold on those!) This week's thread is the place the claim and celebrate those who fought for, those who got, and those who were denied women's rights.