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Last summer, over চা for two in a লন্ডন hotel — because that, readers, is how we rock 'n' roll — we began a conversation about women and men, our differences and similarities, what unites us and what divides us. We talked about বন্ধু and families, about situations at work and at home, and about how fevered and fraught the বিতর্ক around gender equality has become.

It is, of course, one of the great conversations a woman and a man can have — well, OK, maybe not, but it beats the old do-you-come-here-often? routine — and we've been having it, in one form অথবা another, since we were...