WOMEN ARE NOT EQUAL YET

When I was little I remember that first realization that girls were not treated the same as boys. I was five, in kindergarten. And I was indignant.

This column by Maureen Dowd about the disparity between nuns and priests in the Catholic Church is just one illustration of how much further women have to go for equality—and this is the United States. It’s hard for us with all of our privileges, options, and freedoms to imagine the oppression most of the women in the world endure.

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