For the past few days in Portugal, social media and the media in general have been seething over a court decision that reads like a throwback to the 19th century, or as a pronouncement from one of those countries where women enjoy the social status of a cow or a table. But we’re talking about a court in a democratic, European, 21st-century country like Portugal, where the Constitution enshrined equality for men and women 40 years ago. This is a country …
