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The Office of Women’s Advocacy celebrated “Women’s History Month” by placing several articles on their web site. The articles are focused on various aspects of feminism such as its history and women in leadership. Voices of Orthodox Women is disturbed by much of the content in the articles and has responded with two countering articles. Within the first VOW article, “Some Questions and Comments for the Office of Women’s Advocacy on their article, ‘Reflect on our foremothers’ feminism,’” we have asked six questions of the OWA. We have also asked for any comments they might wish to make on our second article, “The Sexual Revolution or Raunch Culture: Isn’t There a Better Choice?”

On March 26, e-mail was sent to Ms Molly Casteel, Women’s Advocacy Associate that included the first article and a request for answers to our questions. After a second e-mail request on the 2nd of April, Casteel graciously agreed to answer our questions. However, since that time she has offered various reasons why she has been unable to do so. These reasons include the computers being down at the center, and jury duty.

On April 26, after we sent yet another e-mail, Casteel answered by saying that she would get to her response “by the end of the day” or “Monday afternoon at the latest.”  Finally, on Tuesday, May 2nd, Casteel wrote to say she had lost the first article, and added that she was “reminded on Monday [May 1st] that she is required to consult with other staff on these kinds of requests …”

Voices of Orthodox Women believes that it has given OWA more than enough opportunity to respond to its questions, and will now proceed to post the two articles. If and when the Office of Women’s Advocacy answers our questions, we will post their response.

You may read both of the articles referred to above by clicking here.  They are posted sequentially on the same webpage.