Women's Progress is Human Progress

Hilary Clinton once said, "We must declare with one voice that women's progress is human progress."

Well I believe that it has been time for humans to progress for a long, long time.

It is not women against men.
Until women find a way to reproduce without men, we will need them to coexist in our society, side-by-side (yes, the beginning of this is sarcasm).
But what is not a joke is that in order for any change to come about, men need to stand up for women's rights, as well.
An army of women is great, but an army of men and women is better.

We need change, and the only way to bring about change is to talk about the topic and agree that justice for women, is justice for everyone.

It should not be isolated as a cultural, religious or regional goal, but an international one, with a single united front to identify and address these world-wide problems.

Something that was brought up in The Honor Diaries was the fact that there are men on the board of the UN that are representing countries that have laws on the books that are purely there to oppress women.
I did not realize how wrong this was to have representatives of the United Nations in powerful, global positions, representing governments that believe that women worth half of what men are, support female genital mutilation, lash women in the streets for wearing "unIslamic" garments, do not let women drive, force 10-year-olds into marriages, limit education for women and punish those that speak out against their government.
These countries, and therefore these ideologies, are being represented within our global governing body.

Something needs to change.