By Lora J. Mackel We, my friends, live in the 21st century. The age of high technology and education- an enlightened age. Racism still seethes, the poor are still poor while the rich are still rich. And though men and women are afforded the same protection under the law, the power relationship between them is still unequal.
Men still hold an overwhelming majority of the traditional seats of authority in our society.
Education and technology have done very little to address the discrepancies. Women only constitute 13 percent of the national legislative spots, while they comprise 51 percent of the population. After all, Europeans do have quite the reputation for being progressive. The French struggle with fixing the gender gap in their society. Recently, rather than waiting around for huge shifts in cultural attitudes, these impatient Europeans have legislated the problem away.