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Education has been a large factor in the broadening role of women in the islands.  From the 1960s on, larger numbers of women went on to high school and even college.  Here Carmen Chigiy from Yap, one of the first women to go away to school, is congratulated by Chief Andrew Roboman in 1961.
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(photo from TT Archives, Univ. of Hawaii Library)