The World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development argues that gender equality is a core development objective in its own right. It is also smart economics. Greater gender equality can enhance productivity, improve development outcomes for the next generation, an…
Discusses the life of Mary McLeod Bethune and seeks to remedy the misconceptions surrounding her fight for equality.
Muslim women have been generally excluded from equal agency, from full participation in Islamic society, and thus from full and equal Islamic identity, primarily because of patriarchal readings of the Qur'an and the entire range of early Qur'anic literature. Based on her pedagog…
"Saudi women have become one of the most rapidly changing elements of Arab Islamic society. Concern with socio-economic national development and the pressures to integrate women into the process of social development make the issue of women in Saudi Arabia one of particular inte…
