Ah, well. Hats off to women who achieve in the professional world and the Perl world.

planetscape++ , castaway++

I think the idea of women's equality, was not to be equal to men, but to not have arbitrary limits placed on their lives and what they were allowed to do. It wasn't that every woman wanted to run out and be a fireman, it was that they didn't want limits placed on women in general, they wanted opportunity to be part of the female realm (and not just the opportunity to have more children than Mrs. Jones).

However, as with all movements of that size, individual women who had something to prove, banded together and in a lot of ways have made the women's rights movement a feminist thing rather than an idea that arbitrary limits shouldn't be placed on anyone's opportunities.

I celebrate and respect my gender, but I also celebrate and respect the opposite gender. We are different than men, and I do not deny, or resent any one of those differences, I embrace them, and in doing so, I allow myself to have opportunity there should I feel in my heart the need to pursue it, but I also get to enjoy being a woman and to enjoy being with a man ;) I hate to sound weak, because I'm not, but the whole "men are idiots and women can do anything they want" thing has really been taken to far in this society.

So, women rock, men rock...and in the end all that matters, is Perl rocks both men and women.