The Financial Times reports on the connection between firearms and equal rights in Uganda:

Women who carry guns and fight for their country do not voluntarily head back to the kitchen, says a leading member of Uganda’s administration. This is one explanation for the change in female fortunes since the National Resistance Army seized power in 1986 with the help of women fighting and collaborating in other vital ways to military victory. Since then, women have achieved a status in Uganda unrivalled in much of Africa.

William Wallis, “Freedom Fighters Win Political Clout, Financial Times, 15 April 2003.