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Newsweek Article
Came across this article today and found the results of this study rather interesting. Despite the more generous and lenient options available to mothers in the European workforce, American women are more likely to achieve respected or what is otherwise considered positions of power and prestige in business.
This pretty much validates or otherwise supports a contention I have had for some time...that there are distinct gender roles, and that men and women can never be truly equal, particularly in the workforce. This dynamic centers largely around the decision to have children.
I don't agree that women should be subservient to men in a relationship, but this does not mean that the traditional model of male bread winner and female homemaker is a bad one. Granted, some scenarios require that both spouses work, but then again, the cost of living in America has skyrocketed due largely to our materialistic excess. Our grandparents and even parents didnt have to worry about the added costs of cable television, big screen plasma TVs, computers, and all the other gadgets that didnt exist 30 or 40 years ago.
Women cannot expect to have a power career AND have children. The feminist movement of the 1970s seemed to downgrade or otherwise condemn the homemaker role, yet an increasing number of 20 something women are choosing that path for themselves. Perhaps because their mothers were largely absent from the child raising process in their pursuit of "equality."
Let's face it...there is a biological difference between men and women, not to mention that our psychological wiring is completely different. There can never be true equality between the sexes. I also think it is somewhat hypocritical of the feminist ideal for equality while expecting exceptions for women, particularly with regards to having children AND maintaining their careers.
To be fair, men have certainly benefitted from some of these initiatives, and fathers SHOULD have an equal role in the raising of their children. It takes two to maintain a household, but even in that arrangement, their are distinct roles.
Came across this article today and found the results of this study rather interesting. Despite the more generous and lenient options available to mothers in the European workforce, American women are more likely to achieve respected or what is otherwise considered positions of power and prestige in business.
This pretty much validates or otherwise supports a contention I have had for some time...that there are distinct gender roles, and that men and women can never be truly equal, particularly in the workforce. This dynamic centers largely around the decision to have children.
I don't agree that women should be subservient to men in a relationship, but this does not mean that the traditional model of male bread winner and female homemaker is a bad one. Granted, some scenarios require that both spouses work, but then again, the cost of living in America has skyrocketed due largely to our materialistic excess. Our grandparents and even parents didnt have to worry about the added costs of cable television, big screen plasma TVs, computers, and all the other gadgets that didnt exist 30 or 40 years ago.
Women cannot expect to have a power career AND have children. The feminist movement of the 1970s seemed to downgrade or otherwise condemn the homemaker role, yet an increasing number of 20 something women are choosing that path for themselves. Perhaps because their mothers were largely absent from the child raising process in their pursuit of "equality."
Let's face it...there is a biological difference between men and women, not to mention that our psychological wiring is completely different. There can never be true equality between the sexes. I also think it is somewhat hypocritical of the feminist ideal for equality while expecting exceptions for women, particularly with regards to having children AND maintaining their careers.
To be fair, men have certainly benefitted from some of these initiatives, and fathers SHOULD have an equal role in the raising of their children. It takes two to maintain a household, but even in that arrangement, their are distinct roles.
