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Trump’s New Administration Is Anti-Woman—a Playbook From Weimar Germany

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Sally Kohn : Misogyny is an integral feature of our new federal government.

She says it's all too familiar territory in authoritarian regimes, such as Nazi Germany , where women were granted the right to attend university nationwide in 1908 .

Kohn says the #MeToo movement saw a wave of women openly discussing their experiences of sexual assault.

Women were expected to quit their jobs if they got married; schoolteachers were required to pledge celibacy.

Nazis reiterated that motherhood was a woman’s highest calling; the domestic sphere was where she could best serve her nation.

Women were stripped of the right to vote and to seek university qualifications; Nazis ruled they could make up no more than 10% of a university class.