why does the Taliban hate women?

[Ken Hanly]

Idleness, drinking and gambling are demoralising? I thought they were almost
universal ideals of most males....Even the point of working in the first
place was to pay for leisure and entertainment...

Cheers, Ken Hanly

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 12:53 PM
Subject: why does the Taliban hate women?


> by a paltry wage. In Sri Lanka, according to anthropologist Michele
> Ruth Gamburd, where many women find work in factories or as migrant
> domestics, the decline of the male breadwinning role has led to male
> demoralization, marked by idleness, drinking and gambling.
>
>> Barbara Ehrenreich is the author, most recently, of 'Nickel and
> Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America.'