Women are often reminded rather patronizingly of their important role in shaping the world. This is of course a reference to their role as mothers of future citizens, warriors and leaders, of men who would go onto shape the world. Women’s work all through history has been monumental, but never visible and of course never ever recorded; and yet women have silently and stubbornly carried on working and living and indeed shaping the world and the people that live in it.
March 2015, volume 39, No 3