The human race appears to have looked briefly at these problems and decided they are difficult to solve, so what the hell let's look after myself. In the 60's one of the enduring images was bra burning. It is to my chagrin that I have only discovered the reasons since starting this article. What is still certain today is that women carry out the majority of domestic chores, such as cleaning, cooking and child rearing. Women around the world still have no or few rights.
Most religions treat women as second class citizens.
Female circumcision, one of the worst barbarities carried out on women is still rife in the world. With respected London Harley Street doctors being implicated. Feminists seem to have gone quiet giving the impression that women are happy with the movement's achievements. How can this be when approximately 70 percent of the world's 1.3 billion poor are women, women hold only 10.5 per cent of the seats in the world's parliaments and of 185 high ranking diplomats to the UN only 7 are women. Surley women cannot be happy with the current state of affairs.