Hillary Clinton is at it again to ever confuse women empowerment with female supremacy and is now spreading her male-hate message in garb of addressing women leaders of India. Secretary Clinton's letter to women leaders in India Just one excerpt from letter: As you come together today, you recognize that economic progress and democratic progress depend on women's progress. You recognize that the freedom and empowerment of women helps them to flourish, and that when women flourish, families flourish, whole communities flourish and entire nations flourish. This is just one example how issues like poverty, opportunity, discrimination are now being women-ified under feminist discourse. It is not important to take care of other half (men) of society. Help women only, and everything … [Read more...] about Hillary Clinton’s letter to Indian women: more lies
Feminist Discourse
Women empowerment really — by lowering taxation?
How pathetic can government attempts seem at times that the want to empower 50% of society by offering them some carrots that they most likely wound not want offered in the first place! If lower taxation for women already was not enough, now WCD minister wants even lower tax rates for them! http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/pre-budget/Tirath-may-seek-lower-tax-rates-for-women/articleshow/5596696.cms NEW DELHI: Recognising that financial independence is the only way to effective gender empowerment, the government has started thinking beyond the age-old fiscal incentive of a higher threshold for taxable income for women. It is now considering demands from women' rights groups for a differential tax rate for women. This boldness in gender budgeting was enunciated to TOI by women … [Read more...] about Women empowerment really — by lowering taxation?