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Wednesday, April 2, 2008 12:00 AM

"Petroleum perpetuates patriarchy"

Blame oil, not fundamentalism, for keeping the Middle East's women down.
Lynn Harris

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  • Wednesday, April 2, 2008 01:21 PM

    So. . .

    1. Participation of women in the work force has been linked to greater political, social and economic power by researchers.

    AND

    2. Women have been prostitutes and strippers in Saudi Arabia and other places where women have very little power for thousands of years

    So, apparently all that work in the sex industry doesn't result in greater status for women the way participation in typically male fields does. I guess the sex work is empowering, just not, you know, politically, economically or socially. . .

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