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February 06, 2009

Women's lib comes full circle?

WASHINGTON (JTA) -- A woman who was not hired by Washington's transit agency because she refused to wear pants has won a settlement of her religious discrimination suit.

It wasn't all that many years ago when woman even wearing pants would have been considered radical, unfeminine and was heavily frowned upon.

Now a woman has to go to court to be allowed to NOT wear pants...

Granted this woman's case is in the context of religious garb rather than feminism (or is it?). But it's still a very interesting (and telling) commentary on how a culture can radically change.

Actually, what really struck me as I read the news blurb was the mental image of a society careening from side to side like a drunken sailor trying to find an equilibrium.

Posted by Kevin at February 6, 2009 01:36 PM