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From: rissa@chinet.UUCP (Garret and Trish)
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Subject: Re: Yale-Harvard marriage study
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Date: Sun, 5-Oct-86 15:25:06 EDT
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>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.....

Basic changes in the way we as a society view and value families and
children would be a good start.  Instead of trying to find ways to 
adapt your working and living conditions to an outmoded workplace,
maybe you should ask yourself why the government hasn't taken steps
to meet your's (and millions of other people's) needs for child care,
maternal and paternal leave, etc.

We will not have women's equality in this country until this accomplished.
As things stand now, all women are penalized by society for their role in
child-bearing and child-rearing, regardless of whether they have children
or not.  Instead of trying on their own to overcome the enormous logistic
and economic problems most working couples with children face, theses per-
sons would do better to push for legislative changes.

In between the times they spend buying groceries, going to parent-teacher
meetings, washing PE suits, helping with homework, fixing bicycles, 
waiting for the pediatrician, reading bedtime stories, etc.

Trisha O Tuama