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Vermont Women: Blackwell On Legal Inequality

Vermont Women In History, VPR’s series of essays on Vermont Women and the Law coincides with the Vermont Commission on Women’s publication of the 6th edition of "The Legal Rights of Women in Vermont".  Today many of the laws discussed in the book apply to women and men equally, but writer, historian and commentator Marilyn Blackwell says that wasn’t always the case.