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75 miles per hour,” she said.
On Wednesday afternoon, the
Transportation Committee amend
ments were adopted by a 26-6 vote.
Those amendments will become
law if the bill is passed.
The section of those amend
ments that deal with a stricter law
enforcement of the maximum speed
limit also spawned discussion.
But Chambers said it would be
nearly impossible to have officers
stop those traveling one or two
miles over the new speed limit.
“With all the miles in this state,
“The time saved is not
worth the cost of life
and the cost of fuel. ”
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to do what some of the members of
this floor would want them to do,”
he said.
Later this week, senators are ex
pected to vote on whether to ad
vance the bill to the second stage
of consideration.
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Islamic women advance
Speaker challenges Western stereotypes
By Julie Sobczyk
Senior Reporter
As the 21st century approaches,
Islamic women of the Middle East are
defying traditional Western stereo
types and are working to improve
themselves, a speaker said Wednesday.
Elizabeth Femea, a professor at the
University ofTexas at Austin, gave her
speech “Islamic Women Today: New
Challenges, Changing Roles,” as the
fourth part of this year’s E.N. Thomp
son Forum on World Issues.
Traditional Western world stereo
types portray Islamic women of the
Middle East in two different ways,
Femea said.
Western men sec those women as
exotic and sexy, she said.
“From diaries, books and plays, we
see the sexy lady extended on a couch,
scantily clad, with slaves fanning her,”
she said.
And Western women hold a differ
cnt view.
“She appears as a household slave,”
Fernea said. “A baby machine, a
slave.”
But these stereotypes don’t hold
true anymore, she said.
“They arc not lying around being
fanned,” she said. “They are not pas
sive.”
Stereotypes are broken as the
women improve themselves in the
work place, education and politics,
Femca said.
About 40 percent of Islamic
women work outside the home, she
said, compared to 7 percent in 1973.
Women also are vying for more pro
motions at work.
With employment comes extra in
come for these women, she said, and
that gives them a sense of power.
More women are attending univer
sities, Femea said, and with education
they are forming more women’s
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movements.
A new religious women’s move
ment has embraced women of all so
cial classes and helps them continue
their educations, Femca said.
Islamic women also have become
politically involved, Femea said.
In the countries of Morocco, Jor
dan, Egypt and Palestine, Islamic
women all have been elected to pub
lic office recently, she said, even
though other countries are trying to
keep women out of politics.
And with the rise of Islamic women
in the work force, education and poli
tics, the stale stereotypes need to
change, Femea said.
“We need to look at the women of
the Middle East with new glasses,” she
said. “We need to see how they are
creatively making a new life out of old
pieces of tradition.”
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