the chapter on the history of Western philosophy’s view on women was particularly disturbing - in summary, women aren’t people.
e.g. Aristotle thought women were naturally mutilated, deformed versions of men. Hegel compared women to plants.
The idea of women being worthy of literacy and education, let alone being a professional like a lawyer, are all shockingly recent changes.
My grandmother was the first person in her family to go to college. A teaching school, something that was deemed acceptable at the time. I knew my great grandmother, but I was too young to ask her about that. I wish I could ask her about such things. Born in the very early 1900s, amazing.