This is a photo of a class at a girls’ school in Qaysar in the northern region of Afghanistan. For those of you who think that wearing a burqa is a woman’s choice rather than cultural and religious oppression, just ask yourself if you would like to be like these Afghan girls. But, actually, these [...]
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In May, I wrote about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s statement that the United States would not abandon the women of Afghanistan by allowing President Hamid Karzai to make any deals with the Taliban. Clinton told three senior female Afghan officials that “we will not abandon you. . . . [I]t is essential that women’s [...]
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The women of Afghanistan are correct to worry that any peace deals the Afghan government might make with the Taliban will sacrifice women’s rights. After all, the Taliban was more repressive to women than, probably, any government in the world. And their relatively recent re-control of parts of Afghanistan is reestablishing the tyranny. For example, [...]
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There has been a series of poisonous gas attacks against school girls in Afghanistan. The most recent occurred on Sunday in Kunduz province, in which at least 13 girls fell ill. They reported symptoms such as headaches, vomiting and shivering. On Saturday, 47 girls from a different school had reported feeling dizzy and nauseous, while [...]
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Title IX, passed by Congress in 1972, prohibited gender discrimination in educational programs and activities receiving federal financing. The biggest impact was on sports in high schools and colleges. The law requires that universities perform multiple steps to determine whether women are being provided with equal opportunities to participate in sports at the university. One [...]
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By this point, I’m sure most of you have read about the upcoming changes to Texas history books. In case you haven’t, here’s a snippet from the NYT: After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and [...]
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Unbelievable. Somehow, the final health reform bill restored $250 million over five years for states to sponsor abstinence-only programs. This came about even though President Obama’s first two budgets had pulled all federal funding from those programs. Repeatedly, studies have shown that abstinence-only education is ineffective. And the numbers of births, pregnancies and sexually transmitted [...]
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The northern Afghanistan province of Kunduz had been mostly free of Taliban controls since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. But, in the past year, the Taliban have regained much control in the province. This has led to the U.S. military shifting its emphasis on the south and east of Afghanistan to now include [...]
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ABC News has an article titled “Chivalry Lives! Arizona Teacher Requires Boys to Have Old-Fashioned Manners in Class.” It is about a male Arizona high school Latin teacher who has instituted a policy in his classes that “all of the boys in class would be expected to act like gentlemen around the girls.” Among his [...]
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The 1972 Title IX required schools and colleges receiving federal money to provide the same opportunities for girls as they did for boys. Two new studies provide remarkable conclusions about the impact that Title IX has had on women in the United States. There had already been research showing that Title IX resulted in “lower [...]
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