People in the Western world assume women have it all: education, job opportunities, birth control, love control, and financial freedom. But women still lack the essential freedom — equality — they lacked a century ago. Women are minorities in every sector of our government and economy, and women are still expected to raise families while at the same time earning incomes that are comparably lower than what males earn. And in our culture, women are still depicted as whores, bimbos, or bloodsuckers by advertisers to sell everything from computers to cars.
Will it take another century or another millenium before the biological differences between men and women are taken as a carte blanche justification for the unequal treatment of women?
SYLVIA PAULL is Founder, Gracenet (www.gracenet.net [6]) Serving women in high-tech and business media.