by admin | Dec 30, 2013 | Articles, Equality, News
You may or may not know a member of the armed forces serving in Afghanistan. You may or may not know anything at all about that country. Sure, you know it’s in the Middle East. So, it’s like a desert and it’s hot, right? Women are suppressed there and have to wear...
by admin | Dec 20, 2013 | Articles, Gender, News, Women's Rights
In a recent Huffington Post article titled, “God, Sex and Corporate Personhood,” author Carol Howard Merritt discusses the ways in which religious freedoms and women’s rights so often overlap and contradict one another. Howard Merritt, an author, pastor, and co-host...
by admin | Nov 25, 2013 | Articles, Equality, Gender, Women's Rights
Would you take off your shirt and bra as a protest against persecution of women? That’s what the women of feminist activist group Femen do. The group has taken part in similar protests all around the world – from Berlin to New York and Istanbul. The group,...
by admin | Nov 20, 2013 | Articles, Gender, News, Women's Rights
Saudi Arabia is known to be one of the most difficult places on earth to be a woman. Women there do not have the right to drive or vote. They are not allowed to hold a job without a male relative’s permission. They are not even allowed to go out in public without a...
by admin | Nov 1, 2013 | Equality, Gender, Power LGBT, Profiles, Women's Rights
Hillary Rodham Clinton is perhaps the most profound example of a woman using her political weight to change the world for the better. She has spent the majority of her life climbing the political ladder in Washington, and some believe that she will become the first...