Gender Equality

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I recently started reading:

When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present by Gail Collins (Oct 14, 2009)

It documents the amazing gains in the struggle for equal rights for women in the last fifty years. Most people my age probably don´t realize how many aspects of life women were legally debarred from, or how much inequity was legally acceptable fifty years ago. As the title of Collins´ book suggests, she celebrates the progress that has been made in her lifetime.

But this Time magazine cover story is a good reminder that some things still haven´t changed all that much.

As an aside, everyone who wants to celebrate the progress that has been made, should genuflect daily before a shrine to Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who argued and won some of the most important cases before the Supreme Court related to gender equality. There is a very nice profile of her by Jeffrey Toobin in the March 11 issue of The New Yorker.