I agree with you, Brit. Education will afford women the opportunity to be able to chose their own destinies. They won't be reliant on their husbands to support them, and they will possess the ability to see the world around them in sharper focus.

But the big question will be whether women will need to fight for these rights, or whether the patriarchies will see that denying women rights isn't, well, right.

She hints toward the end of the article that the growing influence of groups whose religious views are a bit more 'extreme' is putting womens empowerment into jeopardy.

I would hate to see this turned in to some nasty fight where men and women are forced to chose between religion and feminism, rather than reconciling that the two do have a lot of overlap.