Women morality

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, university authorities considered that women students were in particular moral danger and needed an authority figure to oversee them during their free hours.110 A unique role for older woman academics was therefore created — that of lady superintendent or warden of women s halls of residence. Of the women chemists discussed in this book, 11 held appointments of this type. 

Brener, G.S., Morall, G., Finkeistein, Y., Halevy, J. A pregnant woman with hepatitis A and Guillain-Barre. J. Clin. Gastroenterol. 2001 32 179-180... 

Fantastic" is the first observation one makes about the tone of this film. Events are extreme. A woman hides a man from the police beneath her expansive four skirts. While she is being questioned by the police in the middle of a potato field, he impregnates her. Later a birth canal is observed by the child who is to be born. Three years later, the main character decides to grow no longer. All these events are fantastic, beyond belief, and yet together they set the moral parameters of this story. 

In southern Scotland, we drove around a comer and found a woman lying apparently dead on our side of the road just ahead of us. She d probably been run over. It was a tremendous moral dilemma, but I felt I couldn t afford to... 

We have no difficulty concluding that Johnson Controls cannot establish a BFOQ. Fertile women, as far as appears in the record, participate in the manufacture of batteries as efficiently as anyone else. Johnson Controls professed moral and ethical concerns about the welfare of the next generation do not snf-fice to establish a BFOQ of female sterility. Decisions about the welfare of future children must be left to the parents who conceive, bear, support, and raise them rather than to the employers who hire those parents. Congress has mandated this choice throngh Title VII, as amended by the 207 PDA. Johnson Controls has attempted to exclnde women because of their reproductive capacity. Title VII and the PDA simply do not allow a woman s dismissal because of her failure to submit to sterilization. 

As to the I m OK you re OK course, I still recall the first day when about 15 to 20 students were asked to sit in a circle, introduce, and identify themselves. Each person gave their name, year, and major. That is until the young woman next to me announced her name and her identification as a lesbian. Needless to say, that was a tough act to follow. So I did as the others had done. On reflection, I realized that the young woman had answered the question of self identity far more deeply and honestly than the rest of us. I realized that the Who We Are question takes a great deal of self exploration and discovery that only life in combination with guidance and experience can be answered. For me the honest answer was to be found in rabbinic studies. What we choose to do is NOT who we are, but who we are will dramatically impact what we decide to do, and HOW we do what we do, and the moral and ethical choices we make as individuals, families, communities, and nations. 

For example, in At the Inland Sea, the play s dynamics centre upon two relationships. They are both between an adolescent boy and an older woman. One is a mother-son relationship and the other is a relationship between the boy and a woman and her baby from Auschwitz who are about to perish in the gas chambers (Figure 1). Bond creates and explores parallels between the moral imperative that the historical Woman places upon the boy, with the confused and conflicting emotional expectations between the boy and his own mother. The Woman tells the boy that if he tells a story to her... 

Figure 1 Mandy Finney in the role of Woman in At the Inland Sea, which was the first commissioned play from Bond by Big Bmm in 1995, directed by Geoff Gillham. The photograph powerfully conveys the tragic vulnerability embodied by this character, who with her baby is an internee of a Nazi concentration camp. Like Joe in The Children, a character known only as Boy is experiencing conflict at home with his mother and anxious about his imminent school examinations. It is out of these tensions that the Woman appears in the Boy s bedroom with her baby, distraught and frightened but determined to survive. Her life-and-death command to the Boy is a challenging moral imperative Tell me a story. Then my baby will live AIS, p. 11)...

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