Equality with a vengeance: female conscientious objectors in pursuit of a voice and substantive gender equality.(Israel)

Columbia Journal of Gender and Law | January 1, 2007| | Copyright

In December 2002, Shani Werner, a member of a group of young Israeli women who refused to serve in the military because of their conscientious objection to the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, wrote an open letter to the other members of her group: 

 
   When we drafted our first protest letter as high school seniors (in 
   the summer of 2001), we drafted it together--male and female 
   conscientious objectors alike. We didn't ask ourselves whether 
   both [of] these refusals to serve (the men's and the women's) 
   belonged together. It was clear to us that a ...

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