I applaud any effort to advance the role of women in any society. All religious and secular systems promote this noble idea.

In Malaysia it should be a struggle as enduring as lifting the multi-cultural poor out of abject poverty, the Indians in Malaysia out of discrimination, the deserving poor Chinese out of the exclusionary economic practice, and people with physical, emotional, biological and other kinds of challenges out of their 'disabilities'.

It should be as enduring as our common struggle to replace corrupt regimes that continue to create hidden and better systems of apartheid.