Two steps behind and one step to the right is where wives were supposed to be when walking with their husbands. That was and is still the way some religious people treated their women in this country. Maybe that philosophy is the basis for the few jobs women were permitted to have. Few women had more than menial jobs outside the home. The glass ceiling is the modern version of bias against women and in particular, single women.

            I can still remember when the men I worked with during the 1960s summer jobs said all women should be kept barefoot and pregnant. The idea was to keep the women in the house taking care of the kids and the home. The husband was supposed to have the job and give the women enough money to manage the home expenses.

            Things have changed more than many people are aware and more than what some would like. Many of America’s largest corporations are run by women now. Women are now in politics, police, fire, doctors, lawyers and other professions. Women are in the combat roles in the military and driving those monstrous big rigs and bulldozers.

            It is not just my baby boomer generation and earlier men who don’t like it. The Southern Baptist Convention just ruled women could not be ministers. When I was a kid they were the church that believed a woman’s place is in the home. Seems like they have come back around to the 1950s where some men I know still live. The Far Right wing of the Republican Party and some of the radical organizations have that philosophy in their agendas.