Changes of life
This life had changed or had been changed. It doesn't matter actually whether this life had changed or had been changed. What does matter about this life is the changed it underwent. These changes are huge and it won't take much attention for one to notice these changes. The question is whether those changed are for the better or for the worse. Or it also doesn't matter as those are and will go nowhere.
You sure know something about times you have never lived at, about that time when our ancestors were young and the whole world was before them. And you also sure know something about this world, the world you live at, the world that is before you. Take a good look at those worlds and you will find the differences for sure.
It is impossible to have not notice those changes. This life we have is an exact polarity for the life our parents had. It was time when women were not allowed to be educated. Their only aim in this life was marriage. They only had to be pretty and get married with some good man. After they got married they started having their babies and turned into moms. And that was it, nothing more.
Things are different today. The question about education is not even a matter of argument today. Every girl enters university or college after finishing school if she wants to. Sure, there are still some ancient traditions and there is nothing that can be done in order to change those. Though, the position of women in this life is way different from the one that was common for some hundred years ago.