All of this was occurring in the 1970s and 1980s—hence the formation of transnational feminist networks starting in the mid-1980s rather than earlier. In the early 20th century, international feminism was exemplified by the suffrage movement and the socialist women’s movement. Key feminist organizations of the period included the International Women’s Council, the International Alliance of Women, and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.

When feminist groups met internationally during the early part of the UN’s Decade for Women (1975-85), divisions and disagreements precluded any transnational unity. In the same way that nationalist affiliations and preoccupations had undermined the unity of the Second International, international feminism was divided by East-West hostility, the Palestinian question, and differences over what constituted feminist priority issues.

At the same time, capitalism was undergoing a global restructuring, and soon the world’s women were faced with new economic, political and ideological challenges. In response to these challenges, the international women’s movement took on a transnational character, and feminist solidarity across borders became a key feature of the networks that formed.

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Feminists still point to a woman’s salary of 77% compared to a man’s, and shout in that annoying Rosie voice that this is unfair. Well there is one simple remedy to your personal salary and that is to become more valuable. It is a competitive world boys and girls and you get paid what you are worth, if you can get paid more down the road, then in the words of Simon Cowell ‘off you go.’ The feminist movement like most social movements started off in the right direction, thinking everyone should have equal opportunity, but that has been remedied for at least a generation. What they refuse to comprehend is equal opportunity does not mean equal results.

The fact is some people are going to be more successful than others, or earlier than others. That is not an example of unfairness, but human ingenuity. And trying to squelch human ingenuity does not work. The Soviets proved that, the dying UAW is proving it. If General Motors survives their arcane policies, it will be because of operations outside the suffocating tendrils of this out dated institution.

The simple fact is if you are unhappy with your earning power, you have no one to blame but yourself. And there is only one person that can fix it, you. Make yourself a more valuable worker, start your own business, take a second job, try sales, go back to school, learn a new trade, or just get a different job. The world does not owe you a paycheck of a certain amount, and if you think it does, well then apply for a government job. You will get exactly what the pay scale says, and your work and your life will be predictable, safe, and mind numbingly boring.

Like feminism, public education tries to make everyone a homogenous mass. Standardized tests, standardized grading, standardized classes, it is amazing we don’t all come out of that most unsuccessful beaureaucracy a confederacy of dunces. No child left behind equals no child moving ahead. We can’t have any dumb children if we don’t have any smart ones, so lets just dumb them all down We can now quantify exactly what every child should know at every age. Therefore we know how far certain children need to go, and place all our efforts there.

It doesn’t seem to occur to our educational gurus, that quantifying knowledge means placing boundaries on it. Measuring learning means no new ground can be explored by creative young minds, because you can’t pre-quantify the unknown. Einstein said ‘imagination is more important than knowledge.’ In today’s system ‘imagination is more threatening than knowledge.’ Imagination implies something the teacher does not know, and how on Earth can we measure that with a Scantron? We can’t, nor can we measure anything but regurgitated facts with a multiple choice test. These testing practices do not lead to new ideas, new ways of thinking, or any actual learning. They record our ability to memorize, which is why every college student should get a refund for every exorbitant tuition dollar spent of classes that were graded with a multiple choice test. Professor laziness equals pupil laziness, equals standardized thinking. See the notes above about lessons learned from Soviet policy.

Its simple folks, we do the best we can, we strive the most we can, and then we be satisfied with those results, or try again. You owe yourself your best effort, and you take the results as they come, and adjust from there. Would you really want the world any other way?