Go back 100 years in the UK and you're looking at the suffrage movement, driven by the fact that women were not allowed to vote. They were not regarded as important. Men, and more particularly men who owned property, were the people of consequence who ran things.

Not too long prior to that women (and children) were regarded as 'goods and chattel' ie. the property of a man.

So things have changed, but as Lester Freamon said, if you want to know what's really going on you have to follow the money. There was a news piece on BBC Radio 4 a couple of years back that reported a survey looking at pay rates between men and women doing the same jobs. The finding was that women were paid an average of 21% less than men.

That says to me that the UK at least still has an issue with gender equality.

BTW, what does Tarzan do if Jane says no?

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