Russian Priest Faces Interrogation for Undermining Women’s Intellectual Ability
A Moscow-based newspaper has published an open letter challenging statements derogatory to women’s intelligence made by a top official in the Russian Orthodox Church. The letter addressed to Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, was published by Novaya gazeta after Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov, the head of a church commission on family issues and the protection of mothers and children, told the Orthodox Christian Radonezh radio station in a July 7 interview that intelligent women “are still rare.” “Women aren’t that smart. Of course, there are [smart] women like [Polish-French Nobel Prize winner] Marie Curie, but they are still rare,” Smirnov said. Novaya gazeta called the archpriest’s statement “even more baffling since the main duty of his department is to protect mothers, who are women.” “Probably, Dmitry Smirnov is too busy…and unaware that violence against women in our country has reached an alarming level,” the newspaper wrote, mentioning…
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WFP Supports Bangladesh to Lift Rural Women Out Of Extreme Poverty
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Zain Bahrain Launches Women in Tech Summer Internship Program
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