This article (just click on the blog title) and the others in the publication make a very strong connection between the rights of women and the nature of society. But not only that the link between regimes that are repressive to women and the rise of terror activity amongst those societies' men.
It is so easy for us to take our access to education, economic choices and even fertility choices for granted, and to look at the countries where women as repressed and think how backward they are...and yet even we did not have those rights until 100 years ago, which is really so recent! there is a smug superiority i think that sneaks into these conversations, that really has no right to be there, given we are really not that much further on ourselves!
And yet we are further on, and the benefits of education and economic independence for women are so dramatic for the women, their families and society in general that we see it as blindingly obvious!
I hope you enjoy, as much as i have, the superb journalism here, and the scope of the publication's take on women's rights. Leila you may even be able to buy it in paper!
