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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• 14 June 2011

  Sisters in Buddhist spirituality

  By Sanitsuda Ekachai

  Has the clergy's stern frown on female ordination stopped women's determination to pursue a monastic life? If you drop by the Sathira Dhammasathan nunnery-cum-dhamma centre this week, you will realise how the clergy's attempts to keep women down are ineffective and irrelevant. For one whole week ...

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• 14 June 2011

  Absurd policy to 'kill off' small schools

  By Sanitsuda Ekachai

  This is absurd. To win votes, they promise 15-year free education for all. Yet they will punish poor children in remote areas by closing down their schools and force them to travel long distances to study far from home.We are talking about more than 500,000 children in more than 14,000 small schools ...

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• 01 June 2011

  Gender blindness in election policies

  By Sanitsuda Ekachai

  A commodity prices guarantee. A farm chemicals subsidy. Flood insurance. Credit cards for farmers. Financial aid for first-home owners. Debt refinancing. Five years' income tax exemption for first jobbers. An increase in the monthly support for the elderly from 500 to 1,000 baht... The list goes ...

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