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In 1910 the National Education Association elected her its first woman president

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Flagg Young was born in New York

Simone de Beauvoir Cori and her husband identifiedSimone de Beauvoir An outspoken political activist, writer and social theorist, in 1949 de Beauvoir wrote The Second Sex, an ahead of its time book credited with paving the way for modern feminism. In the influential (and at the time, extremely controversial) book, de Beauvoir critiques the patriarchy and social constructs faced by women. The Second Sex was banned by The Vatican and even deemed "pornography" by somea fearless start to the fight for