Women’s rights
Sir, — Women, the female sex, the nation’s second class citizenry, are at last emerging as a force to be reckoned with. For thousands of years, and still today, they have been stifled by the Church, leaders of nations and by the common male. They have had to submit to the will of man. They have been denied just rights for the exploitive gains of man. They have been denied just rights on technicalities.
Various Government departments would enter their bedrooms, would say, “you have not been raped,” would play woman against woman, would grant them justice on man’s terms. Women have been denied equality in many spheres of life only because they are women. In many fields, the powers that be show a bias against and an intolerance toward women. Man, in his several moods, even uses his physical power against them. Where do women go from here? — Yours, etc., L. CLARKE. July 13, 1978.
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