Woman Between Islam and Western Society
        
        
          3. Western Woman
        
        
          ~ 171 ~
        
        
          development of a nation does not depend upon
        
        
          equal participation by women — a view
        
        
          erroneously held by feminists the world over. Ms.
        
        
          Sharmon Babior, an American, acknowledging the
        
        
          difference between Japan and America in this
        
        
          matter comments: “I don’t think American women
        
        
          would tolerate the Teishukanpaku (the husband is
        
        
          the ruler of his home) behaviour.”
        
        
          40
        
        
          NOTES
        
        
          1.
        
        
          Time,
        
        
          March 20, 1972.
        
        
          2.
        
        
          Ibid., p. 26.
        
        
          3.
        
        
          Ibid., p. 28.
        
        
          4.
        
        
          Ibid., p. 47.
        
        
          5.
        
        
          Ibid., p. 47.
        
        
          6.
        
        
          Ibid., p. 89.
        
        
          7.
        
        
          Ibid., p. 47.
        
        
          8.
        
        
          Ibid., p. 47.
        
        
          9.
        
        
          Ibid., p. 47.