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I do not quite understand the underlined sentences of the following two paragraphs. Could anyone give me a hand? Thanks a lot.
1. For the women of my age, it is interesting to us that we now have
an accusation that we are only where we are because we are women.
For a long time we were told we couldn't be anywhere because we
were women.
2. The first woman to read the news regularly on national television was Barbara Mandell for Independent Television News, who began presenting the midday bulletin on 23 September 1955. Evidently it was Mandell's pleasant good looks, open manner and mellifluous voice which Aidan Crawley, the first editor of ITN, thought made her particularly suited to newscasting. Given the small audience that the noon bulletin attracted, however, cost-cutting measures meant that it was the first to be dropped form the news schedule in January 1956. It was not long before Mandell reappeared on the screen, however, this time introducing items as part of a domestic segment. The painted set used as the backdrop for her presentation assumes a particular significance in ideological terms given that it depicted a household kitchen- until, reportedly, views complained about the unwashed dishes.
I do not quite understand the underlined sentences of the following two paragraphs. Could anyone give me a hand? Thanks a lot.
1. For the women of my age, it is interesting to us that we now have
an accusation that we are only where we are because we are women.
For a long time we were told we couldn't be anywhere because we
were women.
2. The first woman to read the news regularly on national television was Barbara Mandell for Independent Television News, who began presenting the midday bulletin on 23 September 1955. Evidently it was Mandell's pleasant good looks, open manner and mellifluous voice which Aidan Crawley, the first editor of ITN, thought made her particularly suited to newscasting. Given the small audience that the noon bulletin attracted, however, cost-cutting measures meant that it was the first to be dropped form the news schedule in January 1956. It was not long before Mandell reappeared on the screen, however, this time introducing items as part of a domestic segment. The painted set used as the backdrop for her presentation assumes a particular significance in ideological terms given that it depicted a household kitchen- until, reportedly, views complained about the unwashed dishes.