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From: sophie@mnetor.UUCP (Sophie Quigley)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Re: the dark forces
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Date: Tue, 26-Mar-85 10:49:22 EST
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> > > Many women are not moving
> > > into the workforce because they're mega-career oriented; many of these women
> > > with kids in day care work because their families need the two paychecks.
> > 

And even if women WERE moving in the workforce because they are mega-career
oriented, what would be wrong with that?   Why do we have to have excuses for
working such as "we need the money", etc....  Why do we get on the defensive
over such things?   Have you ever heard of a discussion about why men want to
work go in the same manner as the one we are having now:  

_ "well you know, he doesn't REALLY want to work, but he has to, because of...,
but all in all, he's still isn't career oriented, so it's ok...."

Does this sound absolutely ridiculous?  well, it is, and so is the equivalent
for women!!!  I am working because I want to!  and even if I didn't HAVE to,
I would probably be working because I enjoy it, and I like making money just as
much as any of you men out there do, because I like spending money and I like
feeling confortable.  Apparently that's a crime, well, I don't care!  So all
you women out there, wake up!  there's nothing shameful about working even if
you don't NEED it: men do it all the time!!

Now, back to work.......
-- 
Sophie Quigley
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