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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• 30 November 2009

  Thailand's shocking inequity statistics

  By Sanitsuda Ekachai

  How will this political mess end? Will Thaksin Shinawatra finally return to haunt us with his bottomless greed? Or will the old, oppressive system that perpetuates social injustice prevail to suffocate us?Is there any way out of this madness?Ask historian/thinker Nidhi Eeo-seewong, and his answer is ...

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• 20 November 2009

  Sangha split opens door for women

  By Sanitsuda Ekachai

  When the monastic elders in Thailand were busy with the Wat Sothorn monks' protest two week ago over who would get to be the abbot of their rich temple, their Western counterparts were simultaneously facing a serious split over the ordination of bhikkhuni (female monks).Here in Thailand, we just ...

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• 13 November 2009

  Bhikkhuni and Western Sangha split

  By Sanitsuda Ekachai

  The late forest monk and meditation master Luang Por Chah was a true visionary.While his peers did not bother with training Western monks, he did. And he did it seriously at his Wat Pah Pong forest monastery in Ubon Ratchathani.Not only that. The far-sighted master also sent his fleet of phra ...

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