Read the following text from a memoir. This excerpt is about Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s 1931 flight to China.

As I walked out of the building two women ran up to me.

‘Oh, Mrs Lindbergh,’ said one, ‘the women of America are so anxious to know about your clothes.’

‘And I’, said the other, ‘want to write a little article about your housekeeping in the ship. Where do you put the lunch boxes?’

I felt depressed, as I generally do when women reporters ask me conventionally feminine questions. I feel as they must feel when they are given those questions to ask. I feel slightly insulted. Over in the corner my husband is being asked vital masculine questions, clean-cut steely technicalities or broad abstractions. But I am asked about clothes and lunch boxes.

From Anne Morrow Lindbergh, North to the Orient. Copyright 1935 by Anne Morrow Lindbergh