Women in all advanced countries have been progressing enormously during my lifetime.
I am an interested observer because my brother and I were raised in the 1950s by a hard-working woman. Hers was heroism greater at times than soldiers at war.
But it was the striving of millions like my mother who made this happen. It was not Hillary or Germaine Greer. Indeed, the careers of such leaders ride the efforts of those millions.
It is also the simple economic fact that advanced societies now need all their brain power. If you scrape the bottom of the barrel for the less qualified men, you are only putting your society at an economic disadvantage.
Give any group of people the education they need and then have new opportunity come along in your society for educated people, and you will see great social change, as we have been seeing.
Great changes always have great underlying economic forces at work. Speeches alone, without such economic opportunity, create little if any change.
