Hahahaha!

Every day, 'The Globe and Mail' posts a "Moment in Time" feature.  Today it was about the tabling of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women on December 7, 1970.  Forty-nine years ago.  It is to laugh because not much has changed.

Hailed as a milestone achievement in the fight for women's rights, it definitely fell short.  The gender pay gap persists, domestic violence against women continues unabated, support for women released from prison isn't there, ditto for affordable child care and a whole host of other recommendations the report naively called for.  Women like my mother and her ilk ignored it; young women like I thought it a breakthrough  Trudeau senior was PM then and we all know what he thought about women, one word:  Margaret.

Sigh.  Here are the authors congratulating themselves:

Notice the men who had to handle its release.