OP-ED: Do women hold up half the sky in Asia?

Europe has a less than glorious history when it comes to women. Let’s take the French Revolution. Many know about the path-breaking Declarations of the Rights of Man in 1791. Less know about Olympe de Gouges and her riposte, the Declarations of Woman, published the same decade. She lost her head on the guillotine. Women in France only won the right to vote in 1944. This despite the fact that the French Revolution of 1789 (like the first Russian Revolution of February 1917) was kick-started by women protestors.