Today is a rather profound day for women in the world and it just might go unnoticed. Reuters is reporting that the British Monarch has <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/girl-british-royal-succession-rules-change-104444789.html" target="_blank">changed its rules regarding succession</a>. Commonwealth leaders agreed to drop rules that give sons precedence as heir to the throne. In other words, if Prince William and his wife Kate have a girl, she can become the ruling monarch.  Under the old rules, a younger brother would be given precedence.

British Prime Minister David Cameron called the rules of succession outdated.
<blockquote>"The idea that a younger son should become monarch instead of an elder daughter simply because he is a man, or that a future monarch can marry someone of any faith except a Catholic, this way of thinking is at odds with the modern countries that we've all become."</blockquote>
What is interesting about the post-modern age is that many deeply held traditions are being overturned.  And the excuse given is that it is simply outdated.  But does outdated mean it was wrong in the first place or has simply outlived it's usefulness?

And what does this say to the women of the world?  Is it recognition or redemption for something that should have happened a long time ago?

What do you think?