About this document click for more. This necessitates the establishment of a world government, the achievement of universal education, the elimination of all forms of prejudice, and the attainment of full equality of men and women.
Many support a higher evaluation of women's traditional roles, particularly in family life, but foresee little change in the roles themselves. The exclusion of women from the Universal House of justice which will be discussed later has tended to perpetuate arguments for "separate but equal spheres" in other realms as well. But the balance is already shifting-force is losing its weight and mental alertness, intuition, and the spiritual qualities of love and service, in which woman is strong, are gaining ascendancy.
Hence the new age will be an age less masculine, and more permeated with the feminine ideals β or, to speak more exactly, will be an age in which the masculine and feminine elements of civilization will be more evenly balanced. Needless to say, this doubling of duties creates tremendous stress for these women. Originating in Iran in the middle of the nineteenth century, the religion spread to North America in the s. In Hinduism this has been Sita, the perfect wife who remains faithful to her husband at all costs.
In Christianity the most eminent woman is the Virgin Mary, symbol of motherhood. Islam has Fatimih, daughter of Muhammad, who models the roles of mother, wife, and daughter together.
This gifted poet of nineteenth-century Iran, far from being a dutiful daughter, continually opposed the theological positions of her father, Mulla Salih, a prominent Muslim cleric of Qazvin.
