In the long years of war against France and the U.S., Vietnamese women fought alongside men as equals. Women such as Madam Bình, who negotiated with Henry Kissinger at the Paris Peace Accords, and later became Vice President of Vietnam, and Mrs. Nguyễn Thị Định, general and deputy commander of the Vietcong forces, reached the highest positions of power. But 30 years after the s...