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Subject: Re: Yale-Harvard marriage study
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Date: Sat, 4-Oct-86 00:22:59 EDT
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> In a recent article rb@ccird1.UUCP (Rex Ballard) wrote:
> >The partner with the greater education, training, experience, and success
> >has a right to expect the partner with less to make sacrifices...
> 
> So: them that has, gets more. That's a cruel way to think about a partnership!
> 
> garry wiegand   (garry%cadif-oak@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu)

Something I always wanted to bring up... Whenever there's a
couple, and they want kids, they decide who quits their career on the basis
of whose paycheck will be missed the least.  That seems reasonable at
first glance, but it usually turns out to be the woman who makes less
and therefore stays home.  My problem with this system is that when the
woman stays at home, she puts her career on hold with the result that she
makes even *less* money in the long run.

Thus, the person-who-makes-the-least-money rule is another mechanism that
keeps women at home.  I don't know any good remedy though.  The alternatives
are: person with the most money stays home (more fair in terms of careers
but less profitable in terms of bank accounts); both people stay home
part time (my favorite, but not available to most people); day-care
five days a week (why bother to have kids in the first place?) or taking
turns with different children (still not equitable if the couple has
an odd number of children); person who wants kids the most is the one
who stays home (reasonable if one person wants kids and the other doesn't,
but I'm not sure I condone having kids at all under those conditions).

Comments?
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		-ed falk, sun microsystems
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