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Episode 519: Peggy Orenstein

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How Did You Learn to Scuba Diving?

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I think I benefited from a kind of I benefited from sexism. So I didn't have to actually know anything about the subject as long as it was a woman. The New York Times, I knew somebody who was an editor there, and they didn't trust California writers. They had kind of a suspicion. And so they thought of me as kind of an extension of New York. There was no reason for me to be doing that story, except that she was a women. That was one of the huge breakthroughs.

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