Gains in women’s rights elude a silent majority

Stephanie Nolen, The Globe and Mail:

I am the beneficiary of their struggle; if you know it’s International Women’s Day, you likely are too. Yes, the gender imbalance in our Parliament is dismal; there is an ongoing disparity in pay for equal work done by men and women; and access to abortion is not uniform across Canada. But Ms. Zetkin might well look on the gains of the past 100 years with satisfaction.

Until she looked south. The silent majority of the world’s women know nothing of International Women’s Day; they remain mired in the struggle for the most basic freedoms.

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