An idea from The Republic

Women guardians get the same training and the same work as men, war included. Bearing children, Socrates argues, is no reason to guard differently. He still says a woman is inferior to a man at every task, so what he offers is equal access, not a claim of equal ability.

From The Republic by Plato

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