Wednesday, September 24, 1980
daily nebraskan
Equality enjoins encouragement, compassion
Although Americans are familiar
with the suffragettes of the early 1900s,
they may not be aware that women to
countries such as Persia were raising the
cry of liberty as early as 1844. (Tahirih,
by Clara Edge)
Recently a man who returned from
rural Africa said that it angers him
when American women speak out about
their bonds and the roles they are
expected to play.
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American women don't know how
good they have it, this man argued,
compared with African women who are
rigidly fixed in their housewife duties.
Even after efforts of women around
the world for more than 100 years, I
told him, women are nowhere near the
station that they need to attain as mem
bers of the progression of human
achievement.
"Humanity is like a bird with its two
wings-the one is male, the other,
female. Unless both wings are strong
and impelled by some common force,
the bird cannot fly heavenward. Accord
ing to the spirit of this age, women must
advance and fulfill their mission in all
departments of life, becoming equal to
men. They must be on the same level as
men and enjoy equal rights.
-Abdul-Baha
Even though American women have
progressed to a higher stage of equality
than their African sisters, Americans
are not having an easy time confronting
the issue of equality.
America cannot decide how far
equality should go. Great debates occur
on whether women should crouch with
men in combat trenches, ready to kill
the humans that they might otherwise
nurture.
Writers portray scenarios of co-ed
bathrooms and eternal house-husbands.
There is another alternative, one
which may solve the problem of trying
to universally define equality.
Legislating equality has already
proved ineffective in racial issues and
the difficulty in having to decide
whether a particular situation or person
is sexist or not is obvious.
If individuals would realize that the
traditional male qualities of force and
aggressiveness are increasingly unnecess
ary being supplanted by the traditional
ly female qualities of patience and un
derstanding, it would be easier to allow
equality of opportunity for men and
women.
It is becoming apparent that women
are often a capable as men in many
areas involving skill, patience and judg
ment. And it is becoming obvious that
men are questioning their stereotype
as the sole supporter of the family,
the unfeeling pillar of strength.
Instead of fighting this trend and
ridiculing those women who value a
career or those men who show com
passion, people could ease this period
of evolution.
They could use their own qualities
of understanding to encourage men and
women to find their stations in life.
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