Countdown to Christmas

23 - Women's Rights

Women's Rights

• Over centuries, freedom was – if it existed at all– mostly a privilege for (some) men. Liberal women from the enlightenment on have been paving the way for a society, where human rights were also the rights of women.
   
• While many countries today guarantee equal rights, the liberation of women is still an issue. Nowhere discrimination is completely abolished. And in many countries women’s rights are still brutally suppressed.
   
• Liberals should not leave the discourse on women`s rights to the politically correct left, that often appears to be quite indifferent when discrimination does take place outside Western societies – as for example in Iran -, or misuse the feminist agenda to pursue non-liberal goals, such as quotas and “positive” discrimination.