[Eva Salzman]

"It almost seems like your mind is made up, and no matter what perspectives get brought forth here, you're not going to consider them."

I have come to certain conclusions, NOT all set in stone and NOT with knowing all the reasons for why societies treat women inequally....except perhaps that is the way it has always been. I mean with pay and all the stats proving this....from a lifetime of experience as a freelance woman writer, at the risk of going on. Not for the hell of it.

"Please prove me wrong! Take another read through this thread and comment on some other possibilities postulated by contributors to this discussion. I don't think it's as black and white as "women are being subjugated, and that's final."

I don't know whose quote this final one is but not mine. So why are you quoting this back! I think I could provide a huge lot of support for my positions, as I already have and still my experience would be invalidated. In fact, this itself is telling. The equivalent would be someone else here presenting their opinions and experiences about THEIR line of work, and me telling them that was nonsense. knowing nothing about their line of work first-hand, nor their experience in fact.