The comforting account of the ascent of women is complacent to the point of somnolenceFor years,I gain asked smug questions about women’s rights, which are repeated by many men and more privileged women than feminists like to confess. “What’s the problem? And why the fuss?”The battles for the vote, or the just to work and to control fertility gain been won – in the wealthy world at least. Individuals suffer sexual violence and discrimination. But deplorable though their suffering is,it cannot detract from the extraordinary advances women gain made in the past 150 years. Today’s blazing rows about young lawyers calling out old lawyers who make passes at them are mere mopping-up operations in comparison to the struggles of the past.
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Source: theguardian.com