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Blog – Sex and World Peace: Or, What Little Girls Have to Do With Our Wars from the Huffington Post, 10/12/12

Monday, October 15, 2012

The author writes, “If you take one idea away from the year 2012 this should be it: The very best indicator and predictor of a state’s peacefulness is not wealth, military expenditures or religion; the best predictor is how well its girls and women are treated. There is a direct relationship between the treatment of women in everyday life — in homes, on streets, at schools and work — and a nation’s propensity for engaging in war.”

View the full article at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/soraya-chemaly/violence-against-women_b_1959746.html