Discrimination Against Women Isn't Unique To Any One Religion

[Heddi]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/graham-perrett/discrimination-against-women-isnt-unique-to-any-one-religion/

Discrimination Against Women Isn't Unique To Any One Religion
We must call out inequality wherever we see it.

It's sometimes difficult, looking from a male perspective, to immediately notice all of the ways that women are treated less equally than men in so many aspects of their lives. There are the obvious ones: the gender pay gap and lower levels of representation in public life, that no-one could miss, but sometimes we just don't see inequality for what it is.

Religious custom can be so embedded, for so long, that many men fail to even recognise it as inequality. That can be the problem. From insisting that women cover their heads, to refusing to shake women's hands, women have been, and still are, treated as less than men by most religions, not just Islam.

Arguably, gender inequality continues to be the basis of much religious hierarchical power, irrespective of whether you are Christian, Muslim, Hindu or Buddhist.
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Amazingly, until 1994 women were not permitted to be altar servers during Catholic Mass. This privilege was reserved only for boys and men.

Catholic women are still treated very differently if they choose to follow a religious life. Women cannot be ordained as priests in the Catholic Church, but they are permitted to join an Order as a consecrated religious. Nuns devote themselves to caring for the sick, homeless, refugees, prisoners and other people in need. Many Australians, including me, have benefited from the care and education delivered by these wonderful women.
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No more than we should turn a blind eye to any institution that unnecessarily permits inequality, whether it is in the hierarchical structure of the organisation itself or whether it is allowing boys to avoid politely shaking the hand of a woman at a formal function.

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Sensible progressives need to call out inequality wherever we see it; whether it is in our schools; in our churches, mosques, temples or synagogues; or in our workplaces. Sometimes, particularly men who are entrenched in the patriarchal hierarchy, are simply blind to inequality until someone points it out to them.

[Moostache]

1. All organized religion is anot anchor on humanity.

There is nothing inherent to any of them that is truly worth preserving that does not already have an equivalent secular alternative. Not one thing.

Humanity remains in a state of intellectual adolescence as a result of keeping the security blanket too long...

[trotsky]

2. That's for damn sure.

Hatred of women, homosexuals, and non-believers is often the one thing believers in different religious can agree upon.