Re: Iranians Protest Bill On Rights Of Women (February 18, 2010)
To the Editor:
Nazila Fathi's article "Iranians Protest Bill..." suggest problems occuring in Iran that are similar to those experienced in the United States nearly thirty years ago. In Cathy Guisewhites comic strip, "Cathy", women's rights in America is a struggle. In her earliest five or ten comics, Guisewhite's character is timid. As she gets more developed as a cartoon, her becomes strong and even attends some Women's rights meetings. Michael Muhammad Knight descrbes women's rights in his book, Journey to the End of Islam (2009) where there are certain mosques that Knight is allowed to attend that his girlfriend is not allowed to attend. The strangest part of this is that these are American mosques. Meaning, the issues of Women's rights in the United States is not over. Unequal pay for women in positions of equal status and skill is another example. The need for women to become masculine in order to achieve positions of leadership as opposed to preserving their femininity is another example. Therefore, the issues that are going on in Iran are just a harsher reality of what is still an unfortunate problem in the United States.
Nazila Fathi's article "Iranians Protest Bill..." suggest problems occuring in Iran that are similar to those experienced in the United States nearly thirty years ago. In Cathy Guisewhites comic strip, "Cathy", women's rights in America is a struggle. In her earliest five or ten comics, Guisewhite's character is timid. As she gets more developed as a cartoon, her becomes strong and even attends some Women's rights meetings. Michael Muhammad Knight descrbes women's rights in his book, Journey to the End of Islam (2009) where there are certain mosques that Knight is allowed to attend that his girlfriend is not allowed to attend. The strangest part of this is that these are American mosques. Meaning, the issues of Women's rights in the United States is not over. Unequal pay for women in positions of equal status and skill is another example. The need for women to become masculine in order to achieve positions of leadership as opposed to preserving their femininity is another example. Therefore, the issues that are going on in Iran are just a harsher reality of what is still an unfortunate problem in the United States.
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