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We are encouraged to look at the success of individual women as evidence of a success achievable by all women. Instead, this individual success is indicative of just that: Individual success within a system organized to keep the majority of women subordinate. Society constructs their roles in ways that reinforce patriarchy by simultaneously centering and silencing their contributions.