Bangkok Post: Opinion

Friday, November 23, 2012

Honour your maid, fight for women's rights

By Sanitsuda Ekachai

Charity begins at home. So do women's rights and gender equality. That's why who is doing the dishes at home is for me not a petty personal issue, but a political one. But whenever I raise this topic _ that a couple's equal share of household chores is an an indicator of gender equality in ...

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• 29 April 2008

  Should we tell our daughters not to trust the world?

  By Sanitsuda Ekachai

  As a mother, the news that grabbed my attention over the weekend had nothing to do with the politics that are near the boiling point. It was about a boy gang rape.A nightmare for any parent, the incident involved three boys, aged 8, 11 and 12, raping a 7-year-old girl neighbour.The boys said they ...

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• 10 April 2008

  Who says we never had Bhikkhuni clergy?

  By Sanitsuda Ekachai

  Like most Thais, I believed that there have never been female monks, or Bhikkhuni, in Thailand. How I was wrong!The person who opened my eyes was Ayya Tathaaloka Bhikkhuni, a Buddhist teacher and abbess of the Dhammadharini Vihara, a temple for female monastics in Fremont, California.As a scholar on ...

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