Wow, very interesting woman. She is certainly much more optimistic than I am. Yes, things have improved. But the forces of repression and rescission are constantly grappling to pull us back. Looking at the world we see Trump, Erdogan, Putin and so many others trying to reverse the course of progression. When an election between going forward or going backward like the 2020 election in the US is won by such a small margin, I can’t feel that social progress can be sustainable for the long term.
Having said that, I hope I am wrong. But my generation, growing up in the sixties was fighting these same battles, for equality of gender, race and wealth. And here we are sixty years later still fighting for those same things, with only marginal progress against the historical and religious powers that control the real government. Not to mention the millions pulling just as hard to go back even further than where we are.