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Spitzer scandal shows gender politics' inequality

March 13, 2008 By STEPHANIE COONTZ Stephanie Coontz, a historian at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., wrote "Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage."

To most Americans, the most heart-rending image of the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal had to be that of his ashen-faced wife standing silently beside him at the podium Monday as he apologized for his transgressions and then again, on Wednesday, when he resigned.

One reporter noted during the unfolding scandal that Silda Wall Spitzer was "living through the worst nightmare for any political...

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