Woman Between Islam and Western Society
4. The Problems Facing Modern Civilization
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“Larger companies can makeshift to fill a hole, but
small ones cannot do that very easily. If I employ
ten females, and two or more get pregnant at one
time, I might as well file for bankruptcy.”
Discrimination against women might increase.
Many companies “just won’t hire women in their
childbearing years,” says the Chamber’s Attorney
Lamp.
A well-known feminist, Betty Friedan, said in
support of the ruling regarding Garland’s case,
“Equality does not mean that women have to fit the
male model.” There is something very incongruous
about this argument. When women are so different
in their biological structure that they cannot “fit the
male model,” where is the necessity to bring
women into every sphere of life to do the same
work as men, and then attempt, by passing laws, to
enforce an artificial equality of the sexes.
As economist Sylvia Ann Hewlett puts it: “This
decision means that there is recognition at the
highest legal levels that, in order to get equal status
for women in the workplace, you have to create
family
supporters.”
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is
an
indirect
