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A woman's lot still not a happy one (NZ Herald)

Jessica Panetta was 15 when her period pains became unbearable. Nearly two decades later she is still seeking relief from endometriosis as doctors and the Federal Government rush to address a disease they admit was long considered "just a woman's lot". (ABC)

Both resented what they saw from early on as the injustice of a woman’s lot, condemned, in the American South, to a life of child care and household concerns, and in Paris, to a life of staging femininity. (The New York Times)

Just 1.2 per cent of women went to university in the 1950s. In many cases, a woman's lot seems to have hardly improved by marriage. (History Today)