ABSTRACT
Increasing the educational levels and economic status of women is the most important way to advance the cause of equal rights. In most Western countries, where women now have far more these opportunities that ever before in history, they no longer have to depend on their husbands for survival. This means that more of them can now avoid marriage and childrearing completely if they choose, compared to most women 100 or 200 years ago, who just fell into automatically into these roles.
Women’s wages, incomes and educational opportunities are lower than men’s in almost every country ...
