In an election over the weekend, Kuwaitis voted four women into Parliament for the first time. The winners are Rola Dashti an economist and women’s rights activist, education professor Salwa al-Jassar, philosophy professor Aseel al-Awadhi and Massouma al-Mubarak, who was also the country’s first female Cabinet minister. All of them have Ph.D’s from the United States. Kuwaiti women got the right to vote in 2005.
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton would be very proud.