In fact some historians are positing that the advancement of women's rights could be the most important socio-cultural change of the second 1,000 years of Western history. Let's examine women's progress in a number of arenas. First, on the domestic political front. We have two women on the U.S. Supreme Court, and the first viable female Republican candidate for president just dropped out of the race. And yet at the same time, we've never had a female president or vice president, and it doesn't really look as though we're going to have one in the upcoming election cycle.
Women serve only at the very bottom tiers of the congressional leadership.
And only three governors out of 50 are women. In the international political arena women may have made even greater strides. Both England and France can boast of having had female prime ministers. Only Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates still denied women those rights. On the domestic financial front, perhaps American women have made the greatest gains.