Why Jews don't get a pass either.

[Mudhammam]

If you're a female in her late nineties born in the United States, you were delivered during a period in which women were only on the verge of having the right to vote. That's incredible. If you're a girl born today, you're far more likely to be paid less than a man doing the same job. Your grandmother was probably expected to be a house wife. These things are thankfully changing, but for some areas of the world the rate of progress (since us enlightened folk perceive that justly on this issue) might require, instead of another generation or two, the next century. That's also incredible.