a) For starters, it's unlikely that affairs involving men of power a la Dominique Strauss-Kahn would have been exposed at all. b) In corporate places, men and women with the same Curriculum have differing salaries, favoring the former more than the latter. c) Despite the progress made on legislation, violence against women (specially of the domestic kind) remains rampant. d) Single mothers are very common nowadays compared with decades past. And a very long and painful etc.