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Sandra O Connor's Obstacles Through Life

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A woman that encountered many obstacles through life, because of her gender dissimilarity was Sandra O’Connor. O’Conner was born in the city of El Paso, Texas in 1930 and her parents were Harry A. Day and Ada Mae Wilkey Day. In 1952, she got married to John Jay O’Connor III and had three sons: Scott, Brian, and Jay. O’Conner decided to become someone better in life even though that during the 1950s it was difficult to obtain an education. So, “in 1946, after competing against many other people and despite the probability that she might not be accepted because she was a woman, O’Connor was admitted to Stanford University.” The results of her desire to become someone better in the mid-twentieth drove her to achieve two degrees one in economics

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