by Heather Hastie | May 16, 2016 | Religion, Women
In the comments section of my last post I wrote: The relative power of women in the early Catholic Church is something that they like to keep quiet nowadays. There’s the obvious argument that if women could be priests and bishops 1,700 years ago and much closer to the...
by Heather Hastie | Mar 8, 2015 | Democracy, Human Rights, New Zealand, Religion, Women
The celebration of an International Women’s Day was first proposed at an international socialist women’s conference in August 1910. It was partly inspired by a women’s day celebrated by the Socialist Party of America in New York the previous year....