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The Triumvir's Wanted to Bloody Tax Women
There were a lot of wealthy Roman business women and lawyers. They didn't have a problem with that in their society, but they couldn't run for the Senate because they were women. A Roman advocate which was what they called barristers who made an argument against taxing them. The triumvir's immediately saw this, the justice of this and they backed right off. And then the same arguments are repeated in the 18th and the 19th century, you've got Wollstonecraft,. Harriet Taylor-Mille. These are people, those three women are just good example, one from antiquity and two figures who emerged in the last sort of 400 years, all make perfect sense to