Reply #97: Actually, honor killings have been treated very leniently in Latin

[Lydia Leftcoast]

countries.

Forty years ago, when divorce was illegal in Italy, there was even a movie on this subject called Divorce Italian Style. The plot concerns an unhappily married man who finds that he can't get a divorce no matter what but that if he kills his wife for adultery, he'll just get a couple of years in prison. So he tries to find a lover for his wife to be "caught" with.

Oh, and Switzerland didn't let women vote until just recently, of all the curious facts.

You're right. We do have it better than women in other cultures, but within recent history, things were much worse. There was no higher education for women anywhere in the world until the 1830s, two hundred years after Harvard was founded.