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Nüshu, the 19th-Century Chinese Script Only Women Could Write

1 points| Brajeshwar | 2 days ago |atlasobscura.com

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sigwinch|2 days ago

> “Out of the thousands of scripts that are gender-specific to men…”

I only know of one, otokode in Japan.

sigwinch|2 days ago

Or, maybe in a less-literal way, some change might have happened to scripts? Both Egypt and Assyria had female scribes.