These differences, of course, caused the most controversy before this century. They have become less glaring now, although they still do exist. There is an active group of women on the UN's Commission on Human Rights that seeks, among other reforms, to secure political and legal rights for women in all countries, so, internationally, discrepancies still loom large. It was only recently that Swiss women obtained voting rights. In Thailand, women revert to the legal status of minors once they become wives.
British women have the right to equal pay for equal work in only one plant in their country.
Here, however, women are allowed to PAGE 18 vote, have some equal rights in marriage, some equal property rights, and are covered by the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, in Title VII on employment, though the coverage is not complete. There are very few women in high Federal posts, women do not often run for or hold political office, women are not organized as an effective lobby for any cause, indeed, women do not vote as often as men. Although this class of differences between sexes is still real and important, it is not the most controversial today, since it depends on even more fundamental discrepancies. Economic The economic positions of men and women differ enormously. This is true for all classes and independently of their level of education.