Mildred McAfee Quotes
I really don't know what it is. He is at home doing the breakfast dishes so that his wife can attend this meeting.
She had just been appointed as the first female vice president of the Federal Council of Churches. Her husband was one of the leading theologians in the country and the Dean of the Harvard Divinity School.
Mildred McAfee, 1900-1994, Electrical Engineer, U. S. Navy Captain, Commanding Officer of the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services), First Naval Female Line Officer, President of Wellesley, First Female Director of RCA and NBC, Response to question of the men at a meeting asking what her husband thought of her holding her current position, Meeting of the Federal Council of Churches
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In 1927 there was a Peasant Uprising in the Hunan Province of China. Young Mau went there and wrote a report. This observation of the lesser domination of the husband where women work, has been found to be the case in almost all societies and economic systems. The result has been great resistance to equal pay for women as the consequences have been far more than just fairness. It changed the power relationship in families, political structures, communities, and changed the manpower requirements of entire societies. For example, by the end of the 20th century in America if most women did not work outside the home, the economy would collapse or immigration would have to be hugely expanded. In 20th century America, advocates of female equality have often been accused of being communists, as it was the communists who first observed this phenomenon and used it to change the society.
Sharie is the Islamic code of law based on the Koran which is so brutal that they would stone a woman to death who had illicit sex or kill someone who wanted to change his religion.
This view is very similar to that of some of the religious fundamentalists in America who would oppose most of the other Nazi doctrines.
This relatively radical viewpoint regarding equal rights for women was expressed by Roosevelt as his Senior thesis at Harvard in 1880. In those days, the kind of scrutiny of everything a candidate ever wrote or said that is characteristic of modern politics, did not exist. It is very doubtful that if the Republican Party officials had ever known that he had espoused these views—even as a young student, that he ever would have risen so high in the party, much less get nominated at the Vice Presidential candidate which was his entree to the Presidency. When in office however, there is no record of him reviving his youthful proposal that women who marry retain their maiden names.
This is a particularly interesting passage of the Koran. On the one hand it provides the religious justification for the sexist dominance of the male in a marriage. However, at the same time, it gave wives rights at a time when few cultures and religions did--such as the right to own and inherit property. Women in the Western world did not obtain some of these rights until the last hundred years. So historically, Islam was somewhat ahead of Christianity when Muhammed lived, but while most Western interpretations of gender role and rights have changed and advanced, a small minority of Islam has been reformist and modern so Islam has gone from a leader in modern gender relations to an obstacle to equality and fairness by not changing and reforming.
Mildred Helen McAfee Horton was an American academic who served during World War II as first director of the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) in the United States Navy. She was the first woman commissioned in the U.S. Naval Reserve and the first woman to receive the Navy Distinguished Service Medal.
