December 2011
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Cycling to Gender Equality in India
Photo by McKay Savage
By Steph Albano
During America’s first bicycle boom in the 1890s, women who took to the saddle found the experience liberating. On a bike, women were equal with men, and their clothing and employment opportunities soon reflected this parity. In fact, Susan B. Anthony wrote that bicycles had “done more to emancipate women than...