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The rise of the bike in the late 1800s changed women’s approach to both private and public life, Sue Macy says in this adaptation of an excerpt from her new book “Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom.”
As part of a push to help its schoolgirls, India’s Bihar state gives a bicycle to every one with good attendance who reaches eighth grade. Officials say this and other efforts have helped lower girls’ drop-out numbers by 1.5 million in five years.
Women such as Gracen Johnson have been pouring time and energy into demonstrations pressing for lower global greenhouse gas emission standards. Now many of them are hoping the U.N. meeting in Copenhagen this week won’t be too disappointing.
