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Originally posted by mmm3587
I'm amazed by the number of successful professional females that don't see this double standard. Sure, they should be treated exactly the same as men in the workforce. No special treatment, except for special women-only mentorship and special women-only networking. And maternity leave. And special women-only retreats. And playing the "I need to go part time or take a quarter off to spend time with my kids" card.
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Fuck you.
I went to a "women only" banquet last night hosted by a committee which was formed in 1979 to address a lot of the inequalities that occurred in this particular workforce at the time. While a lot of strides have been made, there are still only two women in positions of power here, and there have been plenty of opportunities to change that balance. You're supposed to leave those events uplifted and empowered. I left the banquet feeling a little sick because it was so obvious that things haven't improved much in the power structure here since 1979. The lip service pissed me off more than the inequalities.
As for matirnity leave, last I checked, men qualify for FMLA leave as well. Do you want us to drop the plow, have the kid and then pick up the plow again like our foremothers?
Incidentally, during the banquet, a mentoring award was given, and half the nominees for the mentoring award were men, which seems about right to me.
As for the division of labor in households, so long as each party knows, going in, what the other party is expecting and wants out of the partnership, I'm not necessarily seeing a problem if one party carries the burden of breadwinner and the other party carries other burdens.
I will say that I know two women who are going through separations/divorces right now who previously did "nothing". I was shocked when I heard this because neither one of them has children. They're both in a position where they will have to generate their own incomes, and I think this is coming as a shock to them. One of them probably will go into personal training and will do very well at it, and the other wants to sell high-end luxury cars, though I'm not exactly sure how she plans on breaking into that. Their husbands, when they got married, didn't seem to have a problem with the arrangements and I think that both husbands could be described as workaholics. I don't think that they would have worked less if their wives were also working, though I think that their not being around contributed to the disintegration of their marriages.
