At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.

We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames.

Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a change represents an advance or a retreat.

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