How Anaesthesia Defeated Religious Beliefs to Change the World for Women

Browse through your social media timeline today and invariably there seems to be posts about how religions are under threat, either by opposing religions or often one's own followers, hellbent on changing old traditions.

A strain that runs through most of those traditions - across all the main religions - is about how women need to 'know their place and endure' because God said so. People standing up to that concept, demanding women be treated fair, tend to be labeled many a derogatory te...