I'm a little disturbed by this thread, and in particular disturbed by comments that suggest that women don't want to achieve, or that their achievment is driven by outside expectations. Some women really do want to achieve. For example:

This lady is my aunt. I don't think anyone has to hold a gun to Leta Mae Andrew's head to make her coach. Given her age, I don't think that women's activism of the kind some people find so distasteful even existed when she was making career choices.

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Update: fixing spacing.

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