Sami Zubaida in Open Democracy dot net on "Women, democracy and dictatorship"
15/02/12
In the early and mid-twentieth century it was always dictators who embarked on policies to empower women in both family and society. The dictators liberated women in the good days, but retreated under pressure, and it was the populists ushered in by ‘democracy’ who oppressed women.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/sami-zubaida/women-democracy-and-dictatorship