Check for Understanding: What is one way that women are repressed either now or in the
past?

We have to recognize that gender inequality is lessening, in some parts of the world at least. There are now female presidents of international institutions, chairman of major enterprises, prime ministers or high ranking leaders; events that would never have happened 100 years ago. So why has this come about? If we can understand this process, we maybe have a way of hastening or improving it, for even in the most social-advanced countries, gender inequality persists to some degree.