We are celebrating a century of legal gender equality in Norway, but there is still a feminist struggle to be fought. How do women in different parts of the world fight for their rights?

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Media coverage gives the impression that the situation for women in the Middle East and India is deteriorating. Citizens take to the streets demanding justice and protesting their government’s lack of action. Female genital mutilation, marital abuse, gender-based abortion and rape are just some expressions of the worldwide suppression of women. Some call it the patriarchy’s structural crushing of women, others call it gendercide.

The legal situation for women in Afghanistan improved after the American invasion. Yet it is still ranked as the worst country in the world to be a woman. Under these conditions, Orzala Ashraf Nemat launched underground health education and literacy programs for women.

Nemat, now a Yale World Fellow and a scholar at Christian Michelsen Insti