The women's marches have importance - with more than a million worldwide uniting to push back strongly on any move to erode women's rights. Women are very obviously no less important or valuable to our continued prosperity and survival than men. Not in the least or by any measure. 

This column though, seems a bit too flighty, too airy to match the weight of what these marches represent and this next wave of  advocacy that's sprung from events of the past two years in the U.S., in Canada.