Feminist Theologian Mary Hunt Responds to Nicholas Kristof on Religion and Women

Response to Nicholas Kristof on Religion and Women
By Mary E. Hunt January 18, 2010

A fine start. And now we look forward to a deeper, and broader conversation.

"Everyone likes to see their favorite issue on the Op-Ed page of the New York Times. So Nicholas D. Kristof’s January 10, 2010 piece “Religion and Women” brought delight to the eyes of many feminists in religion and opened the eyes of others for whom the issues were new. .."
"...either there was a typo in the article or else Mr. Kristof might want to rethink something. Describing the context of women’s second class citizenship he writes:
That’s a context that religions have helped shape, and not pushed hard to change.
The “not” is misplaced. It is more accurate to say:
That’s a context that religions have helped shape, and pushed hard NOT to change.
Otherwise, one misses the fact that many religions, Catholicism for example (my own tradition, though as a woman I have no decision-making power), have been tireless in their efforts to keep women subordinate. ..

http://www.religiondispatches.org/blog/sexandgender/2199/response_to_nicholas_kristof_on_religion_and_women