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From: eric@aplvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: no men need apply
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Date: Fri, 26-Aug-83 09:45:39 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 26 09:45:39 1983
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	First off, let me state up front that I am male, and hence
am ignoring your subject field, but I felt that I needed to reply
to an issue that you raise in one of your points.

	You mention the "Superwomen Myth", and then list having to
balance a job, housemaking, parenting, spousal emotional support, 
financial planning, etc. In my household, all of those are shared
between myself and my wife (with the exception of parenting). Further,
most households that I know of (particularly where both partners work)
seem to evenly split up the effort involved. In very few (maybe Blondie
and Dagwood) is the man lord and master, with the wife a
diligent slave. I do get mildly annoyed at the current references
to the women having to balance all these tasks when the couples I
see share the work. Isn't this what {marriage|living together|meaningful
commitment} is all about? Or do I just live in a pocket of statistical
abnormality?

					eric
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