Show nothing appealing in soviet idea of Tal taking cing women out of kitchen A young communist newspaper in russia recently featured it a photograph of oe four girls in red and short skirts carrying miners lamps they were bere members of a shock k brigade in a soviet coal mine anil and above the picture win was printed in barge type work in t the he soviet evict WP we knew of 0 course that in russia women were working as bricklayers uno soldiers anif ana militiamen is as well as in many physically exacting factory jobs now the coal t mines ties ilie I 1 he employment ot of women th there ere Is part of the communist campal campaign an to get women out of file lie ki kitchen t e h meaning the lie home cut but if there Is anything more edifying about the coal pit than the kitchen it has hag yet to be shown says one of the most noted women writers some of my renders readers may thrill to this proof thit that women can do any kind of mens work personally I 1 jo do not for my part I 1 see nothing th thrilling billin or dr inspiring in the spectacle of men laboring in the bowels of the earth to dig out coal the thought thong it of women doing it affects me less agreeably then I 1 have never been an exponent of that great human sport which might be called boolin fooling g ourselves and for women to c compete with men on a basis of brute strength seems to me so obviously trying to fool ourselves the claim that women can do everything as well as men will never have my vote but I 1 believe they can do a good many things better than men irume ma mahig deduc education atlon sociology certain kinds or of literature science 5 anee aud and art open to them lielda fields 1 in n bich the feminine understanding enn can offer offe something that men do not lot have to and naturally working in these fields here they have something thin c exceptional to offer must bring them the highest form of self espres sion what a pity that it a whole national culture should be devoted to stamping 0 or r crushing out this uniqueness in the creative ability ot of women an and d making them simply a poor P 0 0 r imitation f m I 1 a t of f men m e n and n we have 1 i a v e 1 ric od if A adi we not no f rn mentioned e n t 0 the i e 1 loss 0 S s t to t the e family i m J i y 1 1 D bell ell syndicate service |