Wednesday, October 29, 2008

I'm sorry that I did my blogs on the last day, I know it is very helpful when people don't post ahead of time.  I read this article yesterday called Fighting for Muslim women's rights.  It was about how some of the worlds leading feminist got together to discuss issues women face around the world.  There were women from Pakistan, Oman, Malaysia, Indonesia, US, and Egypt.  In Oman women can were what ever they want and choose their education.  But if a woman marries a foreign man she can pass her nationality to her children.  Their big problems are with divorce and marital status.  In Indonesia the big problem is that Muslim women aren't very involved in politics because it isn't feminine to do so.  In Egypt their main issue was sexual harassment, the men think that the control of women's bodies involve them.  All the issues are that women have these roles embedded into them of how to act.  But changes are happening all over the world and it is amazing.

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