Gender Equality on the Home Front: Why This Ideal Seems So Impossible in Practice

International Women's Day (IWD) - Daisy Chain Flower Crown

In response to the invitation to celebrate International Women’s Day by a group of writers on Substack, including

Claire Venus

and

Lindsay Johnstone

, I decided to contribute my little daisy to the collective flower crown of women’s wisdom and truth.

“The Taste of Things” (2024) movie still, credit: IFC Films

I want to start with a vignette in the French period movie, “The Taste of T…