me:
> but while we're on the subject, I think the only way that women's > equality can be gained is via feminist struggle of the sort we've seen > (with partial success) in the US. That's why independent organizations > of, by, and for women are so important, so needed. Equality is not > handed down by those in power, who benefit from inequality.
Yoshie:
Feminist struggle exists in Iran, and you can learn about it if you pay attention to it, and Iran has moved toward a gender-egalitarian society to the extent it has in part because of that and in part because of the impacts of the Iran-Iraq War, changing political economy, etc....
I NEVER said that feminist struggle doesn't exist in Iran. I wasn't talking about Iran's actual situation. (BTW, I'm told that the late Shah tried to promote gender equality, too.) Rather, I was talking about your assertion that >It will be nice if Iran will get developed into a homosocial but gender-egalitarian society< on the basis of homosocial organization (gender apartheid, "separate but equal") and that somehow women being in the (paid) workforce would automatically or naturally or somethingily create gender equality. -- Jim Devine / "But the wage of sin don't adjust for inflation. It's a buyer's market when you sell your soul." -- Jeffery Foucault, "Ghost Repeater."
