{"id":174,"date":"2011-09-13T22:29:38","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T21:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karenessexblog.com\/?p=174"},"modified":"2024-11-24T18:28:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T18:28:56","slug":"new-roles-for-libyan-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"New Roles for Libyan women"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/karenessex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_0896.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/karenessex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_0896.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_0896.webp 600w, https:\/\/karenessex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_0896-300x158.webp 300w, https:\/\/karenessex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_0896-400x210.webp 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Libyan women have demonstrated bold and courageous acts during the revolution. &nbsp;Will they go the way of Rosie the Riveter once peace is restored? &nbsp;In Egypt, women were on the front lines of the revolution but NOT A SINGLE female is on the committee to rewrite the Egyptian constitution. &nbsp;Will this document represent women&#8217;s rights? &nbsp;Probably not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Historically, once a revolution or war effort has used female talent, intelligence, energy, and drive, it sends those very women back into traditional roles, denying their evolution as active members of civic life. &nbsp;What a shame it would be if the Arab Spring repeats that mistake. &nbsp;I am hoping that the brave women of Tripoli are neither silenced not sent back into the kitchens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/13\/world\/africa\/13women.html?_r=1&#038;nl=todaysheadlines&#038;emc=tha22<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Libyan women have demonstrated bold and courageous acts during the revolution. &nbsp;Will they go the way of Rosie the Riveter once peace is restored? &nbsp;In Egypt, women were on the front lines of the revolution but NOT A SINGLE female is on the committee to rewrite the Egyptian constitution. &nbsp;Will this document represent women&#8217;s rights? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-power","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1820,"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/1820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}