I think the view of women in the org. is definitely bordering on a chauvenistic one.
Women, in the literature are always portrayed in submissive and stereotyped roles. The "paradise pictures" in the books and leaflets show the women gathering fruit, carrying bread and fruit or setting the table with bread and fruit..(.cause that's all we're gonna eat in the paradise). They are also shown looking after the children, and staring adoringly at their husbands . Their outward appearance is always that of perfection, never a hair out of place, always a wide smile, and always wearing feminine and conservative clothes........never trousers! I have never seen a JW woman or small girl being presented in the literature wearing trousers, not even in the drawings or paintings. It's always dresses or skirts and always below the knees......waaaay below the knees.
In some ways it kind of freaks me out. It's like 'Little House On The Prairie' meets the 'Stepford Wives'.
The sisters are definitely kept in their place in the organiszation, and as oompah pointed out they are never used to carry out even mundane jobs in the hall like doing the mics. Seems like its being put across loud and clear that the sisters will be needed to make the tea and cakes in the paradise so that the men can get on with all the important manual and intellectual work of restoring the earth. What they don't know is that if they left it to the women they would get double the work done in half the time....No problem !
