Here's an interesting story from Afghanistan.....
From TheLocal - Sweden's news in English -- A Swedish army gender adviser in Afghanistan has taken the Armed Forces to task for only employing local men to perform massages on troops stationed in Mazar-E-Sharif.
"It is the opinion of FS17 that there are no reasonable grounds for gender to be one of the profile requirements," he wrote.
Fahlstedt further stressed that his force was committed to strengthening the position of women in society by helping create the conditions in which they could become self-sufficient.
"It's not important as such whether women eventually get the job, what's important is that there's equality of opportunity and they are treated on the same terms as men."
I guess if we're going to invade a foreign country and impose our way of life on them, Afghan women may as well be guaranteed the same equal opportunity for work as men, even if it's culturally and religiously anathema to do so. I wonder when the first female masseuse will be stoned for touching a male, not her husband? Probably her first day on the job. At some point, you'd think these stone-aged, middle-eastern countries would emerge from the dark ages of primitive backwardness and join the modern world. Let's just hope this story has a happy ending.
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