Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Simon Sarevski
“To understand the story of the bicycle, we need to travel back to the late 19th century — a time when people’s mobility was restricted not by laws but by technology and wealth, or rather, by the lack of both. Travel required a horse, and a horse was neither cheap nor easy to maintain. For women, the barriers were even higher: social norms and safety in some cultures required a chaperone, making any trip more complicated and costly. The bicycle changed that, and in the words of the pioneering women’s rights activist Susan B. Anthony, this simple machine ‘has done more to emancipate women than any other thing in the world.'” (01/11/26)