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SANIB-SINAG
3 April 30, 1998
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VERY EARLY last March, preparing our Women’s Day poster (see Sanib-Sinag 2-1), "Synergism and the Liberation of Women," we wrote this:
"Can humanity be uplifted as the female of the species merely carry and birth children and then raise them? What is often overemphasized is the woman’s ovum ‘waiting to be fertilized,’ her pelvis structured for pregnancy or her breasts ready to nurture an infant to childhood. What is often missed out is the woman’s strength of mind and her strength of character within. What is often ignored or denied is that women’s experiences are a rich training ground for excellent leaders and managers. It’s time we ended conditions where the women are made to passively accept what they are told to do. These conditions harm us all." (underscoring supplied now)
We happily felt validated coming across the following passage from Shifting Gears, by Nena O’Neill and George O’Neill (New York, Avon Books, 1975, p. 191), which runs parallel to our point underscored above:
"Any woman who has managed to successfully run a household, balance a family budget and bring up children has taken half steps towards several possible careers, whether she knows it or not. Many thousands of such women have already put what they have learned as housewives to work in new careers in teaching, business and the arts. And most women have the potential to do the same."
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