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This got me thinking about politics. Did you know that the word ‘democracy’ comes from ancient Greek? The very word combines the words demos δῆμος, which means people and kratos κράτος, which means force or power. But when democracy was born – in Athens in the 5th century BCE – you had to be a man of a certain age and class to be considered a person or citizen of your city-state. From the birth of democracy, women were excluded from the very concept.

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