Today is International Woman's Day

This is how we treated International Woman's Day back in 2007. Flippantly. In fact, it is a great deal more serious than that. The state of women on an international scale is still appalling, even in the so-called developed world. In the other world, women (and girls) are still treated dreadfully: genital ablation in Africa, subservience in the Islamic world, forced prostitution just about everywhere, thousands murdered just for being female in Mexico ... the list is all too long. In Spain, women now take up well over half of university places, yet only a very small percentage head companies or the universities themselves. And they, university graduates or not, are expected to do the housework even if they are in work - while the man sits watching football. Plus ça change.