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The dumb wives' club

'HEY, little girl, comb your hair, fix your make-up, soon he will open the door.

Don't think because there's a ring on your finger, you needn't try any more ..." So Frank Sinatra once crooned in the ditty Wives And Lovers, succinctly capturing the casual sexism of the Mad Men era.

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