ion andviolence, whether from regimes in power or opposition movements that hark back to thepast. It happened in Pakistan in the 1980s; it is still going on in Iran; and today at thebeginning of the 1990s, it is happening in Algeria. Tomorrow the same thing canhappen elsewhere...Today they constitute one of the most dynamic components of thedeveloping civil society. Although up to the present they are still politicallyunorganized, they have succeeded in infiltrating one of the citadels which was longforbidden to them: formal education. Education, with high school and universitydiplomas, is women's new acquisition. Until now all women were taught to do, fromhousework to carpet weaving, was devalued and poorly paid....
