Nineteenth Amendment, 164
Nobel Peace Prize, 53, 80
nonviolent crime, 35
North Carolina, 30
North Dakota, 38
Nuns on the Bus, 36
Obama, Barack, 35, 50
Obasanjo, Olusegun, 139
obesity, 172
oil, 55, 63
Oman, 181
onchocerciasis, 72
On God’s Side (Wallis), 194
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, 168
Orthodox Church, 102
Our Endangered Values (Carter), 90
Oxford University, 84–85
Pakistan, 17, 57, 58, 59, 63, 80, 90, 151, 163
child marriage in, 158–59
dowries in, 158
drone strikes in, 57, 58, 59
Guinea worm in, 63
green revolution in, 86
rape in, 151
Palau, 182
Palestine, 63
Palmer, Paul, 188
Panama, 17
Park Geun-hye, 164
Parliament of the World’s Religions, 3
“Pasture Gate, The” (Carter), 11
Paul, Saint, 25–26, 27, 100, 101–2
pay gap, 4, 113, 168–69
PBS News Hour, 116
peace, 5, 6, 10, 11–18, 34, 53, 55–56, 62, 72, 90, 95, 103, 120, 145, 160, 172, 181, 182, 183, 193, 196, 198
peace agreements, 62, 72, 83, 92, 94
Peace Corps, U.S., 60, 76, 155
Peaceful Families Project, 145
Pentecostals, 101
persecution, 71
Peru, 86
Peter, Saint, 112
Pfizer, 77
Pharisees, 23, 100
Philippians 4:2, 3, 101–2
Philippines, 106, 116, 163, 177
Plains, Ga., 7–8, 20, 29
Plains Baptist Church, 10
polygamy, 65–66, 107
Potter, Gary, 38–39
poverty, 1, 71, 172
women in, 86–87
Presbyterians, 113
presidential pardons, 36
President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), 140
preventive war, 57
Priscilla (biblical char.), 25, 26
prostitution, 126–27, 128, 129, 132, 186–88, 198
Protestants, 4, 20, 39, 95, 108, 113
Public Broadcasting System, 150
Qadeem, Mossarat, 58–59
Rabbani, Burhanuddin, 147, 148
“Rachel” (poem), 8
racism, 1
in old South, 8–9
Rambold, Stacey, 50
Rania, Queen (Jordan), 152
rape, 41–42, 43–44, 84, 87, 95, 118–24, 130, 144, 191–92
in military, 46–50
trials for, 50–51
in war, 59
Reagan, Ronald, 35
religion:
sexism opposed by, 3–4
sexism supported by, 2, 3–4, 19–31, 185, 195
violence incompatible with, 6
see also specific religions
Rishmawi, Mona, 67, 133
river blindness, 72
Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), 63–64
Robinson, Mary, 160n
Roe v. Wade, 183
Romans 16, 26
Romero, Oscar, 111
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 14, 178
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 163, 178
Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving, 179
Rotary club, 34
Rothko Chapel, 52
Rouseff, Dilma, 164
Rural Health and Education Service Trust (RHEST), 131
Russia, 55, 191
Rwanda, 120, 121, 164, 191
Sadat, Anwar, 92, 98
Sadat, Jehan, 181–82
SAFE (surgery, antibiotics, face washing, and environment), 77, 78–79
Samar, Sima, 90–91
Sandinistas, 69
Sarah, 23
Sasakawa, Ryoichi, 80
Saudi Arabia, 14, 28, 40, 63, 164, 181
Schakowsky, Jan, 185–86
schistosomiasis, 72
Schlafly, Phyllis, 185
Schlumberger Limited, 52
Seaboard Airline Railroad, 7
segregation, 7, 10, 11
Selassie, Haile, 174
Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), 160n, 192–93
Sen, Amartya, 115
Senate, U.S., 58
Armed Services Committee of, 58
see also Congress, U.S.
Senegal, 155–56
“separate but equal,” 10
September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, 55, 57
Serbia, 17
Sevre-Duszynska, Janice, 111
sex, extramarital, 9, 11–12, 36
sex tourism, 186
sexual abuse, 4, 19, 95
sexual assault, 41–43, 87, 113, 152
sexually transmitted disease, 108, 186
see also AIDS
Shadowline Films, 115
Sharia law, 62
Sharma, Ritu, 136, 176
Shaw Air Force Base, 51
Shenouda III, Coptic Pope, 98
Shiite Muslims, 61, 95
Sierra Leone, 83, 156
Singapore, 106
Sirleaf, Ellen Johnson, 83, 87, 164
Sisters in Islam (SIS), 4, 11, 105–7
slaves, slavery, 1, 83, 87, 95, 116, 125–41, 162
in Bible, 10–11
Slavery Museum, 134
Snyder, Rachel Louise, 143–44
social media, 128
Sojourners, 45, 194
Solomon, King (biblical char.), 23
Somalia, 17, 156, 173, 174, 182
Somoza Debayle, Anastasio, 69
sonograms, 115
South, 7
Deep, 1, 10
South Africa, 136–38
South African Medical Research Council, 121
South Carolina, 51
South Dakota, 38
Southern Baptist Convention, 19, 22, 54
South Korea, 144, 160, 164, 169, 179
gendercide banned in, 116
imported brides in, 116
South Sudan, 75, 160, 161
Soviet Union, 145
Spann, Gloria Carter, 60–61
spouse abuse, 142–49, 152
State Department, U.S., 62, 127, 129, 133, 135
Stop Girl Trafficking (SGT), 130–32
strokes, 172
Sudan, 75, 77, 156, 160, 161, 174, 175, 182
Sufi Muslims, 95
Suharto, 166
Sukarno, 167
Sunni Muslims, 61, 94, 95
Supreme Court, Cananda, 187
Supreme Court, Ga., 33
Supreme Court, U.S., 1, 10, 37, 94, 183
Suriname, 37
Sweden, 70, 187
Switzerland, 177, 184
Syntyche (biblical char.), 101–2
Syria, 62, 191
Taliban, 59, 145, 148
Tayeb, Ahmed el-, 94
Taylor, Charles, 83
Teresa, Mother, 40
terrorism, 5, 54, 55, 57, 58, 196
Texas, 38
Textile labor Association, 192
Thailand, 144
TheEroticReview, 128
Thistlethwaite, Susan Brooks, 16, 142
Thornton, Grant, 68
Tijani Sufi Order of Islam, 93
Times of India, 159
Timor-Leste, 143
Timothy (biblical char.), 25, 101
Togo, 29, 30, 75, 82
Tolbert, William, 83
Tonga, 182
torture, 15, 90, 111, 121
Tostan, 103, 155, 157, 181, 194
trachoma, 72, 76, 77, 78, 79, 174
trafficking, 1, 4, 116, 127–34, 186–88, 197
Trafficking in Persons Report, 133–34
Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), 129
tub
erculosis, 173
Tumah, Mama, 85
Turkey, 55
Tutsi people, 120, 121
Ubuntu, 31
Uganda, 28, 75, 120, 140–41
UNICEF, 129, 143, 156, 157, 173
United Arab Emirates, 181
United Nations, 13, 15, 17, 18, 36, 54, 56, 57, 89, 162
Charter of, 13–15
Children’s Fund of, 115
Development Program, 87
General Assembly of, 40, 192
Human Rights Council of, 67, 161
International Labor Organization of, 126
Millennium Development Goals of, 86, 173, 175
resolutions on women’s rights, 182–83, 198
Security Council of, 13, 16–17, 55, 121, 191–92
Women, 87
United States:
abortion in, 183–84
in armed conflicts, 17–18
child mortality in, 116
gender gap in, 177
incarceration rate of, 35
rape in, 118
women’s rights convention not passed by, 182, 197
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 3, 14–16, 27, 90, 91, 163, 178, 185
Article 19 of, 86
Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men (Hvistendahl), 116
Uriah (biblical char.), 39
Vatican, see Catholic Church
Vatican II, 108, 109
Veterans Affairs Department, U.S., 48
Vietnam, 17, 116
Vikhroli, India, 60, 61
violence, 6, 39, 40, 52–59, 61, 71, 82, 84, 91, 119, 120, 124, 132, 135, 152, 194, 195–96
see also domestic violence; honor killings; sexual assault
Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), 185
Violence and Victims, 43
Virginia, 38
voting rights, 62, 164
Voting Rights Act, 164
Wahid, Abdurahman, 167–68
Wailing Wall, 104
Wallis, Jim, 45, 194
war, 1, 13, 17
civilian casualties in, 53, 56–59, 91, 116
rape and violence against women in, 59, 71, 90–91
war on terror, 57, 90
Washington Post, 48, 111
West Point, 47
West Virginia, 38
Will, George, 3
Wink, Walter, 142
Wise, Sam, 172
Wise Sanitarium, 172
women:
in Africa, 83–85
in Catholic Church, 108–11, 112–13
in China, 67–69, 70
on company boards, 169–70
corruption and, 87
education of, 60–61, 65, 86, 88, 105, 145, 170–71, 184, 197
health education and, 77–79
incarceration of, 35, 36–37
information rights of, 86–88
in Judaism, 103–5
as leaders in early Christian Church, 26
in military, 45–50
in New Testament ministry, 102
in Nicaragua, 69–70
as political leaders, 163–68
in poverty, 86–87
property rights of, 84, 107
as religious leaders, 99–100
in Saudi Arabia, 63–67
treated as equals by Jesus, 23–26, 30, 99, 100–101, 102, 139
voting rights of, 62, 164
see also girls
Women, 99
Women in Church and Society, 31
Women in the Chinese Revolution (1921–1950), 68
Women’s Learning Partnership, 106
Women’s Ordination Conference, 110
World Bank, 72, 162
World Conference on Human Rights, 155, 184–85
World Council of Churches, 31
World Economic Forum, 69
World Health Organization, 72, 77, 115, 143, 154, 160n, 173
World Trade Center, 57
World War I, 53
World War II, 6, 13
World Youth Day (2013), 110
WuDunn, Sheryl, 95
Yemen, 17, 57, 58, 62, 63
Zagano, Phyllis, 110
Zagazig University, 94
Zaire, 120
Zedillo, Ernesto, 160n
Zimbabwe, 81, 160
Zinawe, Meles, 174–75
Zithromax (azithromycin), 77, 78
Zoloth, Laurie, 172–73
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