Women all around the world have had their struggle against survival for a very long time. This struggle began in their mothers warn before they were even born. In the early centuries, when a woman gave birth to a child and if the gender was a boy it was a sign of strength and pride for the family. In contrast to giving birth to a girl was a sign of weakness.
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