Mary Cole marches because...
I march because I'm tired of being negated from the time I can remember as being "just a girl." Being told my father wasn't paying for my college education because I'd just get married and have babies and waste all that money. Working in a hardware/auto parts store and being told the (male) customer "would rather talk to a man," as though I didn't have the brains to look up his spark plugs in the book just as the (male) owner would. Told to "settle down" when I was upset. Told by another employer I didn't make as much as a (male) colleague because I wasn't the head of a household as was my co-worker. What upsets me most is that after being treated in this manner for awhile, one begins to accept it and feel "less than," which perpetuates the treatment. And don't even get me started on the sexual harassment! My first experience with that was at 4 years old. I heard someone today talking about educating girls...