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Originally Posted by issybird
And that’s aside from such issues as Cherry’s being unable to hold down a job for more than a few weeks, apparently. Unfortunately, the whole “boys get to be doctors and girls have to be nurses” schtick reflected reality, certainly when the series was started - World War II era. But I know you know this.
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I could have forgiven Cherry for not being able to keep a job. After all, there has to be some way to get her into new places for the different books
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But the nurse/doctor gender thing, even though I didn't know how to express it at the time, was too much. So I never really got far enough into the series to notice any errors, but you have to wonder where a decent editor was? What's funny for me personally is that I remember my mom, who graduated from college herself in the early 1950s (BA and MBA), when it wasn't all that common for women, subtly discouraging me from reading that series, and years later I began to figure out why...