We are living in a moment of unprecedented transformation for women. Despite recent setbacks, women continue to advance in almost every arena�politics, business,education. We are starting to earn more than our husbands. More of us are getting elected to public office. We are better educated than men. Businesses know they need us and are desperate to hire and keep us. Management gurus at top universities say female leaders are the key to success in the 21st century. Of course, not everything is equal yet�and progress doesn�t follow a straight line, as the recent Supreme Court ruling makes painfully clear�but the underlying evidence and the long-term indications show that the world is moving inexorably from one dominated by men, as it has been for 2000 years, to one in which women have an equal if not greater say in how things run.