tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9999144.post112672270882104644..comments2024-02-14T14:37:30.781-08:00Comments on Mother in Chief: Warren Farrell and Lawrence Summers must be palsMother in Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096344221710006618noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9999144.post-1128683364648167932005-10-07T04:09:00.000-07:002005-10-07T04:09:00.000-07:00You have no doubt heard for decades that men earn ...You have no doubt heard for decades that men earn more, and have clung to the idea out of ideological reasons. So when Farrell counters your long-cherished idea, you are angered in the same way that flat-worlders, who deeply believed all their life that the world was flat, were angered to hear it ain't so. <BR/><BR/>Jerry<BR/>Women Belong in the Home With the Kids at http://womenbelongathomewiththekids.blogspot.com/<BR/>Just a one-page web site to inspire a new way of looking at gender issues. Prepare to be shocked.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9999144.post-1126826816948615712005-09-15T16:26:00.000-07:002005-09-15T16:26:00.000-07:00Overall, there are the "gap years" where a lot of ...Overall, there are the "gap years" where a lot of women take time off from work which affects the overall earnings. Gender discrimination isn't fair though, no matter how you slice it.<BR/><BR/>But as a SAHM, I have my own grievances with not getting a tax break or some advantage to sacrificing a salary.Running2Kshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13115141360927156245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9999144.post-1126783345861717192005-09-15T04:22:00.000-07:002005-09-15T04:22:00.000-07:00Oh, those kinds of articles make me crazy.Yet, whe...Oh, those kinds of articles make me crazy.<BR/><BR/>Yet, when I was offered a promotion that would have ended up with me making more money than my husband.....I turned it down.<BR/><BR/>Why? I want to stay in my nice little part-time gig. The one where I can arrive at 10 am and leave at 3 pm, and meet the schoolbus every afternoon, and stay home if the kids are sick, and so on and so on....<BR/><BR/>So, I do think that there are women who are choosing to make less money to have more flexibility as a trade-off.<BR/><BR/>But certainly it has nothing to do with our intelligence or ability!!!!!!<BR/><BR/>Another thing I wonder is if some women, in general, don't ask for the $$$ the way men do. Everytime I turned down that particular promotion - they came back to me with more $$$. I thought that was odd....obviously money is not my driving force at this point. Honestly, I doubt I would have, on my own, asked them for more money. It just never would have occured to me.<BR/><BR/>So, my take is that yes, gender discrimination exists and it is wrong, wrong, wrong. <BR/><BR/>But there is also a group of women who are choosing to make less - so we can have more flexibility in return.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9999144.post-1126768020401137712005-09-15T00:07:00.000-07:002005-09-15T00:07:00.000-07:00Just in case you didn't want to pay new york times...Just in case you didn't want to pay new york times for an old article, you can find it here: http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/05/opinion/edfarrell.phpswampshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15931752753684287007noreply@blogger.com