Will there ever be a day when women will truly be equal to men?

As I follow the news I can't help but reflect that so many things are just the same all over the world.

I remember my grandmother telling me to always walk keeping my gaze downwards; to smile without showing my gums, and to keep my my mouth close or I'll eat flies ~ difficult thing to do with swollen adenoids.

In fact, my grandma deemed me too pretty not to be morally deformed by it.

My parted lips were obviously a cause for concern as was my sitting by the window in modern-days London, England, in a Georgian house belonging to a white upper-class Anglican family.

" Don't you EVER make me catch you again sitting by the window looking out on the street. My, people will think we are running a brothel in here!" 

So I can't help but reflect:
Is Western society really that different from what we like to consider less-evolved ones?

Isn't it time things changed? It is, after all, 2014....