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There is an excellent article on the Guardian website by Erica Jong voicing her regret at the faltering progress - and in some cases regression - in the journey towards equality between men and women around the world. I have been observing with horror the rising tide of misogyny in the tabloid press - the endless spiteful obsession with women's physical appearance, fatness or otherwise, and how they are age-ing. And then more recently, the absolute crucifixion of Fiona MacKeown, mother of poor Scarlett Keeling - and this in the so-called developed world where equality is a done deal? Jong observes that many women are themselves at the forefront of the backlash against the F-word - as a woman, as a mother of teenage daughters, I find it utterly depressing.