The Resolute Woman

Category: sexism

  • Wisdom from Malala

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    Malala Yousafzai was shot by the Taliban in Pakistan in 2012 because she demanded that girls be allowed to get an education. Malala says: “We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.” “Let us pick up our books and our pens; they are the most powerful weapons.” “I will raise up…

  • Remember the girls in Nigeria

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    The terrorist group Boko Haram recently kidnapped 276 Nigerian schoolgirls who were trying to get an education. “You will not do school again,” the terrorists told the girls. “You shall do Islamic school.” That was the report from one of the six girls who escaped, wrote Adam Nossiter in The New York Times. Those words…

  • Malala and Gabrielle

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    Malala Yousafzai, who demanded that girls be allowed to get an education, was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in Pakistan in 2012. Gabrielle Giffords, a retired member of the U.S. House of Representatives, was shot in a Safeway parking lot in Arizona in 2011. “Malala is a testament that women everywhere will…

  • “Abuse of the grossest character”

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    At a recent Civil Rights Summit in Austin, former President Jimmy Carter, who has written a new book about the mistreatment of women and girls, talked about the “horrific abuse” of women and girls. In recent decades, he said, adults worldwide have deliberately strangled or aborted 160 million infant girls or female fetuses. Genital mutilation…

  • Should women drive?

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    A cleric in Saudia Arabia, where women are banned from driving, recently warned that driving hurts women’s childbearing prospects. Sheik Saleh bin Saad al-Lohaidan explained that driving “affects the ovaries and pushes the pelvis upward.” As a result, women drivers could have “children with clinical problems of varying degrees.” We read about this preposterous claim…

  • Do your best

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    As I expected, I have found David McCullough’s book The Greater Journey—Americans in Paris packed full of stories about interesting people. But I was especially pleased to discover Emma Hart Willard because I have a niece named Emma, a wonderful 6-foot-one-inch college student who is playing basketball and studying to be a doctor. Emma Willard,…

  • How far we’ve come

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    I just went to see my new primary care physician—who happens to be a woman. In addition, my gynecologist, my dermatologist and my cardiologist are all females. Today most of us don’t think much about the gender of our doctors. That wasn’t true in 1849 when Elizabeth Blackwell, the first American woman to become a…