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Thank you We sneak and here's your smoke too Sure

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about you By the right to divorce celebrities everywhere Thank

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you And here's your question How's a dung instituted laws

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in china mandating all of the following for women Except

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what and hear your pencil And all right Well there's

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no doubt that chairman mao is well known for promoting

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the social status of women He mandated equal pay for

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women and men making the incorrect He was quoted as

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saying that equal pay was necessary in order to build

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a great socialist society and that it was of utmost

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importance to arouse the broad masses of women to join

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in productive activity Sounds great right Kind of Basically he

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just wanted women to help out in the fields and

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he knew money was a pretty solid and senate now

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also gave women the right to vote which means b

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is incorrect You have women voting rights in nineteen forty

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seven one year before the universal declaration of human rights

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adopted by the u n stated that everyone women included

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should have the right to vote Way to be a

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trendsetter chairman is also incorrect now did in fact give

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women The right to divorce but considering that mao himself

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was married four times in his life and was known

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for his lack of basic hygiene including bathing and brushing

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his teeth perhaps this last one was at the insistence

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of his many soon to be ex wives That leaves

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us with our correct answer as c now never attempted

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to mandate the inclusion of women into high level politics

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And as a result few women ever reached the upper

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echelons of the communist party But again considering his likely

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smells a result of his poor hygiene maybe all those 00:01:37.673 --> [endTime] potential political women should consider themselves lucky

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