Women: The Road Ahead
That was the theme of Time's special issue last fall. There were
pictures of women with babies in prison, an inconsolable “crack” baby with a
tangle of tubes connected to machines, crying his little heart out, a mother
charged with a felony: delivery of drugs to her newborn child, women in
politics “sharing real rather than cosmetic power,” a veiled Muslim woman, ten
tough-minded women who “create individual rules for success,” e.g. a police
chief, a bishop, a rock climber, a baseball club owner, a rap artist, a fashion
tycoon, an Indian chief and others (not much femininity showed in their
pictures). There were single mothers, lesbian mothers, divorced mothers,
working (outside the home) mothers. There was a twelve-year-old who fixes
supper for her sisters when Mom works late and there was a man who is a house
husband. But there was not one picture of a father and mother and their
children. Not one.
