"I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman." These were the words uttered by the influential Australian singer/ songwriter Helen Reddy in 1972. Although over 30 years old, this songs lyrics raise imperative issues about women's right and about the capacity and ability of women to excel. Helen Reddy, I am sorry to break this to you, but achieving gender equality is not as simple as women all over knowing that they are 'strong", that they …
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…crime? Confessing to a pregnancy out of wedlock, and while under the Nigerian law it constitutes for any Muslim woman to be convicted of adultery, why subject only the females, or for that matter, why enforce it at all while there is no retribution in other parts of the world. No doubt the fight for equality will still go on, and maybe some day the battle of the sexes will end and meet in equilibrium.