Damn. It seems that the Salvation Army has their minds stuck in the stone age (link via TBogg) :

A lawsuit will be filed against The Salvation Army alleging discrimination against married women in management. Married women “officers”, as the administrators are called, are expected and REQUIRED to perform the same tasks as the married men, while their salary is given to the husband only. As a result, the married women officers cannot collect social security benefits or have any reported income for tax or credit purposes. Even the yearly Christmas bonus allowed per officer was given only in the husband’s name.

Allowances are paid to both single men and single women. However, once a woman becomes married, she loses her individual pay and becomes listed as a spouse for income tax purposes.

Each officer’s schedule requires many long hours performing equally the same duties and responsibilities. Both married men and women are reviewed yearly for their job performance, skills, and areas to improve. The married women are reviewed and rated with the same guidelines and formula as the married men.

The Salvation Army requires married couples to be officers together. That is, married men and women are not allowed to seek employment outside the organization, due to excessive demands placed upon them as officers. However, if the married couple decides to leave, or is terminated, it is very difficult for the married woman to establish herself financially and in the workplace.

Needless to say, this will definitely be on my mind the next time I see some little old man ringing a bell outside a department store. Y’know, wilh all the patriarchal bullshit that women still have to deal with in our society, I assumed being treated like they were the property of their husbands was one of those things that had virtually disappeared. I’m willing to give people a little leeway when it comes to being old-fashioned, but the idea that the money married women earn is going directly to their husbands is twisted and dehumanizing and just wrong, wrong, wrong.