Reply To: Vicarious Accomplishment of Women

Golfer: “But we Jews have survived the millennia by following the Torah, which provides us with all the ideology we need. And the role of the woman is clearly defined”

I challenge you on that one. A mass system of women supporting men is clearly NOT based on any traditional structure we have seen before in Judaism. And I have absolutely no problem with that. But I have a problem with cherry-picking and only changing those things that fit in with what the current “frum” trend is (I am purposely avoiding group names). The kollel sytem is a huge break in “mesorah” . I see no reason why other things cannot change as well. I.E. the accompishment of a woman working out of the home having instrinsic value as well, as opposed to solely being a vehicle for her husband’s learning.

For a mass kollel system to exist, we encourage girls to get good degrees and work outside the home. We need that. Never mind that this trend was approximately parallel to the Feminist movement (coincidence? some of you will say “Hashem made it happen this way so that we can have people working in kollel).

But to actually give them intrisic credit for the work – that goes “against a woman’s role”. REALLY, she’s an akeres bayis. But she “works to support her husband’s learning.” It’s not her “main” tafkid.

I would argue that family and career are equally important for both a man and woman.