In an address given at a conference sponsored by the Women and Democracy Association, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan used an international conference on justice and rights for women Monday to declare that women should not be regarded as equal to men and that pregnancy presented an obstacle to equal opportunity in the workplace. Erdogan, a Muslim, also condemned feminists for rejecting motherhood, noting that pregnancy and motherhood were sacred in Islam. Some forms of work, he cautioned, are unsuitable for women. Women’s rights activists were furious.