Our world has changed greatly since the time I graduated from High School in 1964. Drive-in theaters were still a place to go on a Saturday night. Transistor radios were a hot item for teens, and most of us learned to type on mechanical typewriters. Telephones were mostly dial-up versions. And most of us had to wind up our watches unless we had one of those new ones, that wound up by itself by the motion of our wrists. But all of these are a thing of the past. Today it is all about computers.
We talk directly with others over Skype or Zoom. For some, hardcopy letters are ancient history--everything is computerized, including greeting cards. Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat, and Instagram are the ways many interact socially. But there are equally profound social changes in society, not the least of which concerns how men and women see themselves. The feminist movement which really took off in the Seventies has had a dramatic impact on culture and families.
Do you realize that a reversal in the roles of men and women was predicted long ago in the pages of the Bible? I'll read that to you in a moment, so stay tuned. ♪ Welcome to Tomorrow's World where we fearlessly tackle the problems facing our world and bring you good news of a better world to come. On today's program, I'll be discussing the feminist movement and how it is fulfilling a prophecy from the Biblical prophet Isaiah.
And because that movement has changed everything we ought to know about the institution of marriage and family, I'll be offering you our free resource God's Plan for Happy Marriage. Be sure to have writing material available so you can take down the contact information. Among feminists' most successful initiative was the 1992 report released by the American Association of University Women (AAUW), titled "How Schools Shortchange Girls."
It alleged that boys were favored in the classroom while girls were ignored, but the report was biased and dishonest. Dr. James Dobson had this to say about it in his popular book, Bringing Up Boys: The report garnered significant attention in academia and in public perception and brought about dramatic changes in how schools approached boys and girls.
Dobson went on to write that: Most damaging was when Congress, as a result of lobbying from various feminist organizations, passed: [so-called] Among the initiatives in the Act, money was funneled to: What the feminist movement, and especially the Act, has done is create an atmosphere that is bringing about the fulfilling of an ancient prophecy. You can read it in Isaiah 3 and verse 12...
Education has changed at all levels since the AAUW report, calling for an emphasis in education in favor of women and girls. So, after 30 years, what are the results of these changes? I'll answer that question in a moment, but I want to mention today's resource. One of the changes in society as a result of the feminist movement is marriage and family. That is why we are offering our absolutely free resource--God's Plan for Happy Marriage.
It's totally free of charge and no one will ask you for a donation. Just call the toll-free number shown on your screen, or go to TWTV.org/Marriage and let us know that you want today's offer. It's that simple. So order your free copy of God's Plan for Happy Marriage, and when I come back, I'll show you the dramatic results of changes in education since the release of the biased and now discredited AAUW report. For today's free offer call... Or go to...
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Call today and join millions around the world who are turning to Tomorrow's World for truth, prophecy, and hope in these confusing times. Call now! Or go to... Before the break I said I would show the dramatic results of changes in education since the release of the biased, and now discredited, 1992 American Association of University Women report titled, "How Schools Shortchange Girls." The resulting bias in favor of girls in education, starting at the earliest levels, has had its effect.
The September 6, 2021 Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece by Douglas Belkin titled: The numbers are disturbing. Roughly 60 percent of college admissions are women and schools of higher learning struggle just to keep the male population at the 40 percent level. Samuel Goldman, writing for The Week, in the article titled: Points out that the ratio between men and women would be even worse were it not for a bit of fudging on entrance requirements.
As disturbing as that is, it's only part of a dismal picture. Going to university is one thing--graduating is another. Belkin explains: Now those percentages are significant, but when we put them to specific numbers, they are shocking. If you take 100 students where 60 are women and 40 are men, and apply the percentages who graduate in 4 years, it means for every 42 women graduates you only have 22 men. Some would argue, "So what?
Men still make more money and hold the power positions in our world." That's the conventional wisdom, but Goldman points out that this is "largely a generational effect." He explains that leaders across the board, whether in industry, commerce, communications, or government: He then explains what should be obvious to us all. The double standard goes beyond education. For decades, women strove to invade every bastion of male exclusivity.
Women reporters demanded equal access to men's locker rooms for interviews. Girls clamored to play on boys' baseball teams. They lobbied for admittance into the Boy Scouts. Anything that was singularly male became a target, but could you ever imagine males being allowed into women's locker rooms or competing in women's sports? Well, I guess we now can. What goes around comes around.
Yes, by a bizarre circuitous route, men and boys are today invading everything female, by simply claiming that they are females trapped in male bodies. Girls and women are pushed aside as confused, or opportunistic, men break record after record in female track and field, in weightlifting, and more. Scholarships that should rightly go to girls are funneled to biological boys who will never become biological girls.
I can only imagine the anger fathers must feel when they see their daughters robbed in this way. In October 2017 the Boy Scouts of America began admitting girls to their organization. Not surprisingly, the ones most disturbed by this turn of events were the Girl Scouts. Yes, what goes around does come around. The problem is not that special programs have encouraged girls in academics, sports and leadership, but that these resources are mostly going in one direction.
And just as girls have special needs, so do boys, and without proper support and motivation, too many are left adrift, feeling lost. Boys especially need guidance and focus as Belkin explains. Or, as civil engineering student Luke Weiss put it: What we see is a world turned upside down. Instead of men as leaders, we have men floating aimlessly, with more and more leadership positions going to women.
Some women no doubt rejoice in this turnaround, but thoughtful women understand that the problem is not good for society as a whole. As college enrollment consultant Jennifer Delahunty warns, the disparity we see in education today is not only bad for men, but also for women. One wonders, "Has the feminist movement, which spawned the biased AAUW study, improved the lives of women?
Are women happier as a result?" I'll answer that question in a moment, but let me remind you of today's offer--God's Plan for Happy Marriage. Marriage was once important to both men and women, but it's a shadow of what it once was. What we see today is a hook up culture with marriage an afterthought. It's a one-day event for a woman to have her fairy tale day in the sun with an expensive dress and all the trimmings, but does either the bride or groom understand God's purpose for marriage?
Do you? God's Plan for Happy Marriage explains the why of marriage, and it is far more than most realize. So pick up the phone or go to TWTV.org/Marriage to order your FREE copy of God's Plan for Happy Marriage, and when we come back, we'll answer the question, "Are women happier today?" This clear and straight-forward resource will help you understand this vital truth-- straight from the pages of the Bible. Call now! Or go to...
The feminist movement of the second half of the 20th century changed our world in many ways. As we have seen, the biased and discredited 1992 report put out by the American Association of University Women has had a dramatic effect on girls and women. Universities now favor women by a ratio of 60 to 40 and there are only 22 men for every 42 women who graduate from university in four years.
Before the break I said we'll answer the question, According to a 2013 Psychology Today article, the 1970's feminist movement has not translated into greater happiness. Quoting from the referenced study, "The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness": Britain's Daily Mail Online published an article in response to the study, titled: In it, Netmums website founder Siobhan Freegard explains: An interesting observation is found in The Guardian, another British source, on May 18, 2016.
It explains that the Swiss did not give women the right to vote until 1971. Many things in life are counterintuitive. They go against expectations. Ten years after receiving the right to vote, another referendum was held. This time to decide whether to amend their constitution to require equal pay for equal work. One of the casualties of the feminist movement has been marriage and family.
Feminists wanted to be free from what they described as the drudgery of housework and the responsibility of children. They wanted sexual freedom and the result is a hook up generation where the commitment of marriage has declined sharply. This is why we are offering our free study guide, God's Plan for Happy Marriage. It can be yours free for the asking. We won't sell your name to anyone and no one will hit you up for money.
If you want to know the divine purpose for marriage, pick up your phone or go to TWTV.org/Marriage to order your free copy of God's Plan for Happy Marriage. And when I come back, we'll look at what God's says about men and women and how He designed us for a greater purpose that is not understood in today's confused world. For today's free offer call... Or go to... This clear and straight-forward resource will help you understand this vital truth-- straight from the pages of the Bible.
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The feminist movement that set in during the second half of the last century has failed to bring the happiness and fulfillment to women as a whole. There are certainly women who are happy with their careers, but studies show that overall, women are less happy today than they were in the 1970s. This should not surprise us, because the feminist movement, among other things, is a rejection of God.
This is not to say that individual activists--and especially women who simply bought into the attractive sounding propaganda, without truly understanding it--were deliberately rejecting God. They saw the feminist movement as an attempt to improve the lot of women and did not realize it sought to overturn the roles of both men and women as given in our Creator's instruction book--the Bible. But make no mistake. It is an attempt to do away with the nuclear family. But is that wise?
If we are indeed a product of creation and design, the Creator and Designer must know what is best for that which He created and designed. And, indeed He does. The Biblical prophet Isaiah predicted that the reversal of traditional male/female roles would take place at the end of the age. For he said... Men have not brought the world peace, and must bear responsibility for the world as it is today, but will women do any better? Not according to this prophecy.
Samuel Goldman's prediction that "The American elite will be female," is correct, even if Isaiah "scooped him" by more than 2700 years. Of course, it was not Isaiah, but our Creator who understood this in advance. In a later passage, Isaiah quotes God as saying... Male and female relations have never been in perfect balance. Far from it.
Even today women are horribly abused in some countries around the world, where girls are not allowed to go to school and women may be beaten mercilessly with no consequences handed out to their husbands. Yet, our Western world has gone to a different extreme where men are considered bumbling fools incapable of the proper leadership role they were given by their Creator.
Radical feminists, many of whom resent men, perhaps due to abuse in their upbringing, or for other reasons, reject the God-given roles of men and women. And too many men are not being trained to be the loving providers and leaders they were created to be. The Bible lays out these simple facts... It is obvious that men and women are different physically and emotionally, but these differences are being discounted. Today it is the woman who comes to the rescue of the man. Need a tire changed?
Woman to the rescue. Have a problem in business? Woman is there. Being attacked by city thugs? There she is again--stronger, quicker than any man, and a marvel at karate. But is this reality? I think we know the answer. Men and women were made to complement, not compete, with one another. Men are designed physically to be protectors and providers.
It's not that a woman cannot provide and where the husband suffers sickness or injury, it may be necessary to reverse the roles temporarily or even permanently. There is no stigma to this. A man can still be the head of his household even under such circumstances, but when men do not prepare for the proper place of being the breadwinner and leave it to the wife to go out into the world to "bring home the bread," problems readily arise.
A woman needs to be loved and a man needs to be respected and these needs are more likely to suffer when the roles are reversed. Instead of women fighting for control of the pants, God instructs... Feminists have long scorned this passage as being sexist and misogynistic, not understanding that God has a plan far greater than they could ever imagine. Referring to the marriage relationship, Paul went on to say... The blending of male and female in marriage is essential to a well-ordered society.
History shows that, as with the family, so goes the nation. Marriage between one biological male and one biological female can bring children into a balanced, nurturing, and loving environment where male and female contribute their unique qualities. Family is a perfect training ground to learn good manners, caring for others, self-discipline, and self-sacrifice. This only scratches the surface of God's purpose for men and women.
Be sure to order our free resource, God's Plan for Happy Marriage, to learn more about your role and purpose in life. And be sure to come back next week at this same time when Richard Ames, Wallace Smith, Rod McNair, and I will bring you more truth straight from the pages of the Bible. For today's free offer call... Or go to... Call today and join millions around the world who are turning to Tomorrow's World for truth, prophecy, and hope in these confusing times.
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