(From the archives of BFD Blog!)
The following item appeared in the Los Angeles Times today:
Authorities have ordered banks to separate female and male workers at their headquarters, a new setback for women’s rights in the kingdom.
Banks are one of the main employers of women in Saudi Arabia. Although women are separated from men in branches, they have worked together in bank headquarters.
Saudi Arabia’s strict law and customs prohibit unrelated men and women from mixing, and women from driving cars and voting in municipal elections.
What are the men who run this country afraid of? The wrath of their God, or maybe just a loss of their virtual manhood. What they need to be concerned about is the loss of their humanhood. Through their subjugation of women they only retard the intellectual, economic and human development of their own people.
Maybe the Saudis ought to Google some of the following women who have contributed to society in the United States, and just maybe they will figure out that they are “missing the boat” in terms of the contributions that women in their society could potentially make:
| Abdellah, Faye Glenn |
| Abzug , Bella |
| Adams, Abigail |
| Addams, Jane |
| Albright, Madeleine Korbel |
| Alcott, Louisa May |
| Allen, Florence Ellinwood |
| Alvarado, Linda G. |
| Andersen, Dorothy H. |
| Anderson, Marian |
| Andrus, Ethel Percy |
| Angelou, Maya |
| Anthony, Susan B. |
| Apgar, Virginia |
| Baker, Ella |
| Ball, Lucille |
| Bancroft , Ann |
| Barton, Clara |
| Benedict, Ruth Fulton |
| Bethune, Mary McLeod |
| Blackwell, Antoinette |
| Blackwell, Elizabeth |
| Blackwell, Emily |
| Bloomer, Amelia |
| Bly, Nellie |
| Bourke-White, Margaret |
| Bradley, Lydia Moss |
| Bradwell, Myra |
| Breckinridge, Mary |
| Brooks, Gwendolyn |
| Buck , Pearl S. |
| Bumpers, Betty |
| Bunch, Charlotte Ann |
| Cabrini, St. Frances Xavier |
| Calderone, M.D., Mary Steichen |
| Cannon, Annie Jump |
| Carson, Rachel |
| Carter, Eleanor Rosalynn Smith |
| Cary, Mary Ann Shadd |
| Cassatt, Mary |
| Cather, Willa |
| Catt, Carrie Chapman |
| Child, Lydia Maria |
| Chisholm, Shirley |
| Clinton, Hillary Rodham |
| Cochran, Jacqueline |
| Coleman, Bessie |
| Collins, Eileen |
| Colvin, Ruth |
| Colwell, Rita Rossi |
| Cooney, Joan Ganz |
| Cope, Mother Marianne |
| Cori , Gerty Theresa Radnitz |
| Croly, Jane Cunningham |
| Davis, Paulina Kellogg Wright |
| Day, Dorothy |
| de Forest, Marian |
| de Varona, Donna |
| DeVoe, Emma Smith |
| Dickinson, Emily |
| Dix, Dorothea |
| Dole, Elizabeth Hanford |
| Douglas, Marjory Stoneman |
| Dudley, Anne Dallas |
| Dyer, Mary Barret |
| Earhart , Amelia |
| Earle, Ph.D., Sylvia |
| East, Catherine |
| Eastman, Crystal |
| Eddy, Mary Baker |
| Edelman, Marian Wright |
| Ederle, Gertrude “Trudy” |
| Elion, Gertrude Belle |
| Evans, Alice |
| Ferraro, Geraldine |
| Fitzgerald, Ella |
| Friedan, Betty |
| Fuller, Margaret |
| Gage, Matilda Joslyn |
| Gibson, Althea |
| Gilbreth, Lillian Moller |
| Gilman , Charlotte Perkins |
| Ginsburg, Ruth Bader |
| Graham, Katharine |
| Grasso, Ella |
| Griffiths, Martha Wright |
| Grimke, Sarah |
| Grimke Weld, Angelina |
| Hallaren, Mary A. |
| Hamer, Fannie Lou |
| Hamilton, Alice |
| Harper, Martha Matilda |
| Harris, Patricia Roberts |
| Hayes, Helen |
| Height, Dorothy |
| Hicks, Beatrice A. |
| Hobby , Oveta Culp |
| Holdridge, Barbara |
| Holladay, Wilhelmina Cole |
| Holm USAF (Ret.), Major General Jeanne |
| Holt, Bertha |
| Hopper, Grace Murray |
| Howe, Julia Ward |
| Huerta, Dolores |
| Hunt, Helen LaKelly |
| Hurston , Zora Neale |
| Hutchinson, Anne |
| Jackson, Shirley Ann |
| Jacobi, Mary |
| Jacobs, Frances Wisebart |
| Jemison, Mae |
| Jones, “Mother” Mary Harris |
| Jordan, Barbara |
| Keller, Helen |
| Kelly, Bishop Leontine |
| Kelsey, Ph.D., M.D., Frances Kathleen Oldham |
| Keohane, Nannerl O. |
| King, Billie Jean |
| Kuhn, Maggie |
| Kwolek, Stephanie L. |
| La Flesche, Susette |
| Lange, Dorothea |
| Leet, Mildred Robbins |
| Lin, Maya Y. |
| Lindbergh, Anne Morrow |
| Locke, Patricia A. |
| Lockwood, Belva |
| Low, Juliette Gordon |
| Lucid, Shannon W. |
| Lyon, Mary |
| Mahoney, Mary |
| Mankiller, Wilma |
| Mayer, Maria Goeppert |
| McClintock, Barbara |
| McCormick, Katherine Dexter |
| McManus, Louise |
| Mead, Margaret |
| Mink, Patsy Takemoto |
| Mitchell, Maria |
| Motley, Constance Baker |
| Mott, Lucretia |
| Mullany, Kate |
| Novello, Antonia |
| O’Connor, Sandra Day |
| O’Keeffe, Georgia |
| Oakley, Annie |
| Parks, Rosa |
| Paul, Alice |
| Pennington, Mary Engle |
| Perkins, Frances |
| Peterson, Esther |
| Rankin, Jeannette |
| Reno, Janet |
| Richards, Ellen Swallow |
| Richards, Linda |
| Ride, Sally |
| Ridgway, Rozanne L. |
| Rogers, Edith Nourse |
| Roosevelt, Eleanor |
| Rose, Ernestine Louise Potowski |
| Roulet, Sister Elaine |
| Rudolph, Wilma |
| Ruffin, Josephine St. Pierre |
| Sabin, Florence |
| Sacagawea, |
| Sanger, Margaret |
| Saubel, Katherine Siva |
| Schiess , Betty Bone |
| Schroeder, Patricia |
| Schwartz, Felice N. |
| Scott, Blanche Stuart |
| Seibert, Florence |
| Seton, Elizabeth Bayley |
| Shaw, Reverend Doctor Anna Howard |
| Shriver, Eunice Mary Kennedy |
| Siebert, Muriel |
| Sills, Beverly |
| Smith, Bessie |
| Smith, Margaret Chase |
| Smith, Sophia |
| Solomon, Hannah Greenebaum |
| Stanton, Elizabeth Cady |
| Steinem, Gloria |
| Stephens, Helen |
| Stevens, Nettie |
| Stone, Lucy |
| Stowe, Harriet Beecher |
| Strong, Harriet Williams Russell |
| Sullivan, Anne |
| Talbert, Mary Burnett |
| Tallchief, Maria |
| Tarbell, Ida |
| Taussig, Helen Brooke |
| Truth, Sojourner |
| Tubman, Harriet |
| Vaught USAF (Ret.) , Brigadier General Wilma |
| Wald, Florence |
| Wald, Lillian |
| Walker, Madam C. J. |
| Walker, M.D., Mary |
| Warner, Emily Howell |
| Warren, Mercy Otis |
| Wattleton, Faye |
| Wauneka, Annie Dodge |
| Wells-Barnett, Ida B. |
| Welty, Eudora |
| Wharton, Edith |
| Widnall, Sheila E. |
| Willard, Frances |
| Winfrey, Oprah |
| Winnemucca, Sarah |
| Woodhull, Victoria |
| Wright, Fanny |
| Wu, Chien-Shiung |
| Yalow, Rosalyn |
| Yerkovich, Gloria |
| Zaharias, Mildred “Babe” Didrikson |
For biographies of the women listed above, go to this page at the National Women’s Hall of Fame. Interested in reading more about the subjugation of women in Islamic dominated governments, please see this previous posting, and SAND GETS IN MY EYES blog.
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