Giving a fair chance to the Maltese woman

Abstract

To write about the status of women in our country is not an easy task. In the first place being a woman I might tend to be subjective, and although any article can never be entirely objective I would not like to be accused of being one sided in my arguments. Secondly, it is difficult to give a general view of our women today when there is a chasm between the "select" and the "ordinary" woman. By this I mean that generally speaking our women are still at an early stage of progress as compared with what other women in other countries have succeeded in achieving for themselves. We speak of having acquired a certain amount of independence, but is it independence we should fight for, when many other things by far more important for us are still lacking? [excerpt]