joining me mall -- outresearch your nart for women's network for pakistan and india. it's wonderful to have you out here at the table. >> i guess my first question is, is this an example, when we link these together, these different places in which there seems to be grassroots women's mobilization, particularly against sexual violence and violence and intimidation. it's just an example in the cliche of journalism, three makes a trend, that we're looking for this there. or in the same way that the arab spring did follow a pattern of contagion in the consciousness, or is there a contagion of consciousness in the grassroots? >> i think it's a contagion.