{"id":626,"date":"2013-03-20T11:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T11:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/03\/is-religion-good-for-women.html"},"modified":"2014-07-29T13:00:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T18:00:57","slug":"is-religion-good-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/03\/is-religion-good-for-women.html","title":{"rendered":"Is religion good for Women?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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The Tony Blair Foundation and the Washington Post On Faith section<\/a> asked a number of women to discuss the value of religion to women in this fascinating online series<\/a>\u00a0developed for the International Day of Women.\u00a0 \u00a0Does it help or harm women? \u00a0 Some of the women include: Farah Pandith, \u00a0Special Representative to the Muslim Communities at the US Department of State,Katrina Lantos Swett, \u00a0Chair of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, and Samina Yasmeen, \u00a0Specialist in Islam and professor at University of Western Australia.<\/p>\n

In addition to writing a short blog, some women also dealt with the question in \u00a0a video, like the one below by Grace Lee Baughan from the Faith and Global Engagement Initiative at the University of Hong Kong.<\/div>\n
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