Different By Design [antikvár]

INTRODUCTION The fact that men and women are different by design is no surprise to those who are committed to reahty or familiar with the Bible. It is a great surprise, however, to many who, over several decades, have engineered, vigorously endorsed, or passively succumbed to the social experiments that deny or attempt to alter that design. The experiments have failed, and have destroyed our culture in the process. A plethora of astute, honest, and brave observers in this closing decade of our century have begun to speak up: • Item: In the former Soviet Union, where radical social experimentation on male/female roles has occurred since the early part of this century, "many Russian women see true freedom as the ability to be full-time wives and mothers," according to a front-page story in a recent issue of the Los Angeles Times (Elizabeth Shogren, "Russia's Equality Erosion" [Thür. 11 Feb. 1993], Al). That traditional option has long been denied them, and both men and women are beginning to sense that this denial was never right: Public opinion polls show that many Russians, men and women, feel that if they could have the choice, most women would not work outside the home while raising their children Lyudmila is one girl who has already decided that she does not want to repeat the double-duty life of her mother, who has toiled full time for 20 years in a candy factory while, like many other Russian women, being solely responsible for the household. "She gets no satisfaction from her work," said Lyudmila----"I don't want to work after I am married. It takes too much time from your family. Most of my girlfriends feel the same way " "The majority of younger women think it's better if women are at home," said Valentina V. Bodrova, a sociologist at the All Russian Center of Public Opinion and Market Research, a leading polling organization (AlO).