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From that moment on, says Masih, everything was different. “Looking at photographs of my family before the revolution, you see my mum wearing a skirt and a scarf, and my father has just a small beard. But after Khomeini returned it was forbidden to shave so his beard grew huge and my mother had to be entirely covered up in a dark chador. Everyone looked miserable after the revolution: fresh and happy faces like my mother’s face before were covered up, and sad.”

But before the revolution there was social freedom, women were allowed to participate as equals in much of life – they could do sport, they could go to the gym, there were female judges. The people who backed the revolution wanted political freedom, and they ended up not getting that – plus, they lost their social freedom.”

To people who tell her that the hijab is just a bit of cloth, and there are much bigger problems to be faced in the Middle East, Masih has this message: “This is about a government that’s controlling a whole society through women. It makes me so sad when people say it’s a small thing, because everything starts from that infringement of our rights.” A whole culture of intolerance, she says, is built on that; and women bear its brunt, from the age of seven.

When I was a child my mum would say: ‘If you get thrown out of the room, you always find a window to get back in.’ And now social media is my window. The authorities are watching me, and my campaign, because they know how powerful it is that ordinary women are protesting. We’re like the suffragettes, we’re risking breaking the law for something we absolutely know is right.”

The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, 2010-2012 State Report, CDC. [2] The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, 2010-2012 State Report, CDC. [3] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Costs of intimate partner violence against women in the United States. Atlanta (GA): CDC, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control; 2003. [4] Max, W., Rice, D. P., Finkelstein, E., Bardwell, R. A., & Leadbetter, S. (2004). The economic toll of intimate partner violence against women in the united states. Violence and Victims, 19(3), 259-72. Permalink: https://www.murray.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/11/senator-murray-renews-efforts-to-empower-domestic-violence-survivors-by-breaking-down-economic-educational-barriers Related Links News Releases Patty in the News Multimedia Blog Office Information Washington, D.C. Office 154 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 Phone: (202) 224-2621 Fax: (202) 224-0238 Toll Free: (866) 481-9186 Everett Office 2930 Wetmore Avenue, Ste. 9D Everett, Washington 98201 Phone: (425) 259-6515 Fax: (425) 259-7152 Vancouver Office The Marshall House 1323 Officer's Row Vancouver, Washington 98661 Phone: (360) 696-7797 Fax: (360) 696-7798 Yakima Office 402 E. Yakima Ave, Suite 420 Yakima, Washington 98901 Phone: (509) 453-7462 Fax: (509) 453-7731 Seattle Office 2988 Jackson Federal Building 915 2nd Avenue Seattle, Washington 98174 Phone: (206) 553-5545 Toll Free: (866) 481-9186 Fax: (206) 553-0891 Spokane Office 10 North Post Street, Suite 600 Spokane, Washington 99201 Phone: (509) 624-9515 Fax: (509) 624-9561

Money is our society’s most concrete form of power.

Needless to say, if more employers benefited from real education about how domestic violence works, and more workplaces had plans for dealing with it, fewer victims would lose their jobs.

But when we allow ourselves to move toward an understanding of domestic violence and sexism as economic issues—with all the seriousness and “real” political heft that implies—then we have both more urgency and more acuity in dealing with them.

The Philippines is the only other country with paid domestic-violence leave, which it enshrined in law in 2004.

nly five days’ unpaid leave, which went into effect on August 1st.

Research by Women’s Refuge, a charity in New Zealand, found that 60% of people had full-time jobs when their abusive relationships began but half of them were no longer employed as those relationships progressed. Many victims stay with abusive partners at least in part for financial security. 

And that makes abuse impossible by that same confession of faith if it's held rightly. So we've got to make sure we are teaching both parts of that biblical truth all the time, everywhere.

disproportionately restricts birth control access to people of color with lower income.

The mostly white women’s purity ministry, Secret Keeper Girl, for example, spent much of 2013 raising money to take their Secret Keeper Girl tour into “the inner city of the Bronx” to spread the gospel of modesty there and a woman’s worth there.

If Black women are naturally promiscuous, then sexual fidelity and modesty will not come easily to them. They will need to be taught. And that is where the benevolent racism of white evangelicalism takes its greatest toll. By treating the Black community as an object to be acted upon, as opposed to a community with its own leaders and its own methods of confronting issues, white evangelicalism sets itself up as the savior of the Black woman.

Because the underlying stereotypes are never challenged, young Christians go into “inner cities” to minister there, and return to their cozy white existences without having challenged their institutionally enforced bias against people of color

But until the paternalistic theologies around race change, such integration in the churches will be next to impossible; people of color will continue to be silenced, ignored, or outright attacked on matters of sexual health.