Financial History Issue 113 (Spring 2015) | Page 17
new professional opportunities for women,
common thought still held that they had
little to contribute to the world of ideas.
As one newspaper would put it in 1912,
women may have greater longevity than
men because “they don’t use their brains as
much as men.”
Lizzie’s game featured play money and
deeds and properties that could be bought
and sold. Players borrowed money, either
from the bank or from each other, and
they had to pay taxes.
Like Pachisi, later ۛ