"Indians make up first all-women mission of UN"

Submitted by anthony on Thu, 2007-02-01 03:03

Story here. Excerpt:

"India has made history by sending the first all-women police unit to serve with the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Liberia.

The 103-member contingent, which arrived in Liberia yesterday, will help strengthen the rule of law and maintain peace in the West African country. The contingent also has 22 men but they would engaged in logistic work and not participate in operations.
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The Indian women "are the right people at the right time to come here now," said Malor. "They are professional, skilled, capable, and they will be able to do the job just as well as their male counterparts are already doing on the ground if not better in some instances."'

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... I say, good! 'bout time they started taking the riskier jobs. One measure of actual equality for the sexes will come when as many women are in these dangerous positions as men. So, we have a long way to go yet. But it's a start.

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Submitted by mcc99 on Thu, 2007-02-01 17:59

This is a good step in a good direction. Hopefully we'll see more strives for true equality in society down the road.

Personally I think the next step will be for the press to stop making a significant report out of it.

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Submitted by bryanh on Thu, 2007-02-01 20:19

I hope Malor is right, and it doesn't turn out to be something like women in the U.S. military, with men taking up the slack in combat scenarios; or the male prisoner in Atlanta who overpowered a female guard, and shot four people in a courtroom (killing three). However, it does appear to be mostly a step in the right direction. Why haven't we done this in the U.S.? Because we must protect women at all costs, even if it results in men being disposable.

-axo

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Submitted by axolotl on Mon, 2007-02-05 04:00