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From: janr@orca.UUCP (Jan Rowell)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Pointer to an article on childcare
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Date: Mon, 5-Dec-83 13:54:04 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  5 13:54:04 1983
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This month's (or maybe last month's by now) Harper's
magazine has an article that discusses the
history of women in the workforce since WWII and the
how it has affected the kinds and amount of childcare
that's available. The author's thesis is that we're still
suffering from the fact that after WWII, women were
under heavy pressure to stay home and have full
responsibility for molding their children. In Europe,
by contrast, women remained in the workforce after the
war, and thus haven't had to overcome such entrenched
feelings that they should be at home and that we 
shouldn't set up childcare facilities because that
would just encourage women to work (like the argument
that teaching teenagers about birth control encourages 
them to have sex).

It's an interesting article.