rest of chapter 24 and arab spring

The rest of the chapter was about feminism movements, religion, and how the global environment has transformed. They talking about feminist movements that occurred all over the world. One that is going on right now is the women of the Arab Spring. I had no idea what this was until we had to look it up. I found many articles about it but I was still pretty unsure of what it really was. I looked it up and the Arab spring is an uprising that has spread across the Arab world in 2011. Conflict started in Tunisian and quickly spread to many parts of egypt, seria, saudi arabia, ets. The two sources I found information on was ..

1). http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arab_Spring

and 

2). http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/03/opinion/pelosi-women-africa-democracy/index.html

The first one listed is a website that just tells what the women of arab spring is and how it is progoressing. The second is an actual news article about the conflict. In the first one, i was shocked to read how this all started. It is insane that it started from a man that lit himself on fire in tunisia in fornt of a municipal office all because earlier that day govnt official confiscated his cart and beat him because he didnt have a permit. This basically started an uproar that has now branched out and expanded into a larger conflict. People of these places are frustrated with the government, "...over living standards, police violence, rampant unemployment, and a lack of human rights." Women have become a huge part of this uprising against the government. It has become an issue of human and equality rights between men and women. Women are fighting for equality.