By Sallie Krawcheck
It can’t be about “empowerment” any longer. To make real progress, it has to be about power—using and growing the power we women already have.
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Women have been elected heads of national governments on six continents. They have flown into space, served in elite combat units and won every category of Nobel Prize. The global #MeToo movement, in 15 months, has toppled a multitude of powerful men linked to sexual misconduct.
Almost nothing about the Friday prayer held yesterday in Morningside Heights in Manhattan was familiar to Samira Jaraba, a Palestinian immigrant who trekked alone on the subway from Brooklyn, cloaked in a cream headscarf, to see if the rumors were true.
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Since Dr. amina wadud led her first public sermon 25 years ago, Islamic feminism has taken root and sprouted globally.
Scandinavia’s first female-led house of Islamic worship, where Friday prayers are for women only, is riling conservatives.
She is a controversial figure – not just as a female imam, but as a woman who has called for the reformation of Islam with a feminist agenda. Janice Turner meets Sherin Khankan at Europe’s first all-female mosque.
Since the summer, Ms. Khan, a former architectural designer, has emerged as an eloquent and indefatigable public face of the maelstrom surrounding Park51, the Islamic community center and mosque that she and her husband, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, are trying to build two blocks north of ground zero.
Are Jetsunma, her nuns and artists achieving something truly radical and unprecedented at DGL? In the context of tradition-laden India, Nepal and Bhutan, they are. - G. Roger Denson