https://lightofdharma.com/tags/women/ Recent content in Women on Light of Dharma Publishing Hugo en-us Mon, 08 Dec 2025 10:00:00 -0500 https://lightofdharma.com/the-power-the-world_forgot/ Mon, 08 Dec 2025 10:00:00 -0500 https://lightofdharma.com/the-power-the-world_forgot/ <p>There are two ways to destroy a woman. One is to oppress her. The other is to convince her that liberation means becoming a man.</p> <p>The twentieth century saw both in action. And the twenty-first still hasn&rsquo;t found the way out.</p> <h2 id="the-old-oppression">The Old Oppression</h2> <p>Machismo needs little introduction. It&rsquo;s the story of millennia: women treated as property, excluded from education, subjected to domestic violence that society tolerated or ignored, relegated to a silence mistaken for virtue.</p>