Women's rights in Iraq

Over at Salon, Mitchell Prothero looks at the prospects for women’s rights in Iraq, saying that “many Iraqi women remain extremely anxious as religious party leaders, with strong ties to Iran, sit down to write a constitution.” It concludes that “If the Shiite can indeed harness the sense of self-sacrifice that they have shown their leaders for hundreds of years, whether on the field at Karbala or in defying Saddam, and find a middle ground with their political opponents, maybe Iraq does have a chance for a representative, egalitarian government -- one that incorporates lasting and equal rights for women.”