Obama was free to say what he really thinks about foreign policy.
Romney will never get much support from women. No regressive Republican ever will.
We like being able to get good educations and our own paychecks.
That's what it is about with women. We don't want to be forced into marriage or into staying in miserable marriages because we can't compete on an equal basis in the working world.
Obama's foreign policy is fine with women. Republicans sent our kids to war. Obama is bringing our sons and daughters home.
We understand the struggle of women elsewhere in the world, but we also know that how well women are doing is not a matter of religion but rather a matter of culture.
True, in the Middle East, Muslim women have a struggle, but I learned recently that a number of Muslim countries have had female leaders.
Indonesia, the most populous Muslim-majority country, elected Megawati Sukarnoputri as president[2]
Pakistan, the second most populous Muslim-majority country, twice (non-consecutively) elected Benazir Bhutto as prime minister[3]
Bangladesh, the third most populous Muslim-majority country, elected Khaleda Zia[4] and Sheikh Hasina as prime ministers.
Other Muslim- majority nations which have had female political leaders include:
Turkey elected Tansu Çiller, who became prime minister on June 13, 1993[5]
In the Muslim majority region of Kosovo, President Atifete Jahjaga was unanimously elected by the Assembly of Kosovo on April 7, 2011[6]
Kyrgyzstan's President Roza Otunbayeva was sworn in on July 3, 2010, after acting as interim leader following the 2010 April revolution.
Senegal's Mame Madior Boye was Prime Minister from 2001 to 2002.
Nearly one-third of the Parliament of Egypt- the fifth most populous Muslim majority nation- also consists of women.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_political_leaders_in_Islam_and_in_Muslim-majority_countries
We have very few women in our legislature and only three on the 9-person Supreme Court. We have never had a female president. I was quite amazed to learn that Muslim women are given such high positions in certain Muslim countries. I had never paid attention.
So we overgeneralize when we criticize the subjugation of Muslim women in the Muslim religion. It may be Middle Eastern culture and not the particular religion that is at fault.
At the same time, I believe that, at least in Pakistan, many women do not have good educational opportunities. It seems to depend again on the culture and maybe on the family.
Mitt Romney generalized and repeated a cliche. But that shows that he doesn't know that much about the world. (Nor did I until recently at least with regard to women's rights in the Muslim religion.)
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