http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYaczoJMRhs

Love this clip for so many reasons. Great people you'll recognize from cinema and film speaking out eloquently on some issues confronting every culture in every corner of the world. It's not preachy, just interesting and informative.

What hits home with me about the Equality Now project and organization is that I just talked to a friend who spent 2 years in Senegal, Africa helping out in the Peace Corps to assist a village with their education and health challenges. Lo and behold, the contact within the village to which she was assigned was a man who had some pretty confining ideas of a woman's role (yes, read: my very bright, college-educated friend devoting two years of her life to apply her talents in helping this man's community). So he had her holding a book for him - so he could read in comfort I presume - until she spoke up (quickly, once she picked up enough Pulaar (the native language there; French derivative due to the original colonization of the area by France)...