Not the (Gender) Role She was Born to Play
'Women hold up half the sky,' said Mao Tse-tung. Women should not be seen as the property of men, to be exploited, demeaned and degraded, but spin the globe. In China, baby boys are greeted by celebrations of joy, while baby girls elicit condolences. In El Salvador, women are arrested out of hospital emergency rooms if they are suspected of having had an abortion. In Moldova and elsewhere, thousands of young women are either kidnapped or sold by their starving families or lured with promises of employment and then sold across borders into a sex-slave trade.
