It gave women the legal backing to challenge discrimination.
Title VII forbids employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. So it did give women backing to challenge employment discrimination, because it made such actions illegal.
I believe she tells them to cover their ears with wax. The Sirens were known to enhcant sailors with their music and songs and lure them to their deaths. To prevent that Circe had them plug their ears so they wouldn't be enchanted, and go to their death.
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It was the birth of communism and it ended up making the industrial revolution possible ( i believe)