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Women now on top in the changing jobs market

KNBS: Women in 32 counties in the country outnumber men as breadwinners. [Courtesy]

It’s a man’s man’s man’s world, so goes one popular song by the Godfather of Soul James Brown released in 1966.

Decades before the hit song, which was widely criticised as chauvinistic, Edward Bernays - a pioneer in public relations and propaganda - had in 1929 sought to change the narrative that categorised women as the “weaker sex.”

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