This year’s milestone International Women’s Day (8 March) highlights the world’s painfully slow progress toward gender equality and the new generation’s power to drive change. At this watershed moment, women across the Middle East – where progress has by some measures been slowest – are speaking out on SAT-7, drawing power from their Christian faith to call for the equal value that is inherently theirs.

What does it mean to be a woman in a conservative, male-dominated society like Turkey? The latest episode of SAT-7 TÜRK talk show Turning Point took this as the focus in the week that marks International Women’s Day (8 March).

SAT-7 CEO Designate Rita Elmounayer celebrates the courageous women of the MENA region on International Women’s Day.