Comments on: There’s More Than One Gender Gap http://www.eqsq.com/vivreladifference/2008/03/18/theres-more-than-one-gender-gap/ Vivre La Difference Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:27:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Tim Worstall http://www.eqsq.com/vivreladifference/2008/03/18/theres-more-than-one-gender-gap/#comment-18891 Tim Worstall Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:02:00 +0000 http://eqsq.com/vivreLaDifference/theres-more-than-one-gender-gap.html#comment-18891 There's one definition of feminism: that men and women must be the same. There's another (which is one that I subscribe to) which is that men and women should have equal freedoms and opportunities to live their lives as they wish. You're also subscribing to that latter one: you wanted to do the early years raising yourself so you did so. There’s one definition of feminism: that men and women must be the same. There’s another (which is one that I subscribe to) which is that men and women should have equal freedoms and opportunities to live their lives as they wish. You’re also subscribing to that latter one: you wanted to do the early years raising yourself so you did so.

]]> By: lucy http://www.eqsq.com/vivreladifference/2008/03/18/theres-more-than-one-gender-gap/#comment-18705 lucy Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:32:10 +0000 http://eqsq.com/vivreLaDifference/theres-more-than-one-gender-gap.html#comment-18705 Very well-thought article! That Cornell research does say a lot. But who’s to say what’s the answer. Anyone would describe me as a feminist, but at the same time, I stayed home with my children for four years, and have been compromising career (working part-time, working at home, around family schedule), since. For me, as much as I believe in equal rights for men and women, my family is simply more important than work. I hope I’d feel that way if I were a man, but it’s hard to imagine exactly how I’d feel if my children did not grow inside of me. Studies on bonding between parents and adopted children are interesting here. This article, http://magazine.byu.edu/g/?act=view&a=1692, says that parents’ ability to bond with adopted children depends on the parent. Some can, others not. It would be interesting to see if mothers of adopted children stay home with them at the same rate as natural mothers. I know I’m straying from subject… On a side note about the article, which mentioned the infidelities of political men versus women, and specifically named FDR, why was there no mention of Eleanor Roosevelt’s possible affairs? While it’s not been ‘proven,’ it’s generally suspected that she had affairs of her own, with men and women. Very well-thought article! That Cornell research does say a lot. But who’s to say what’s the answer. Anyone would describe me as a feminist, but at the same time, I stayed home with my children for four years, and have been compromising career (working part-time, working at home, around family schedule), since. For me, as much as I believe in equal rights for men and women, my family is simply more important than work. I hope I’d feel that way if I were a man, but it’s hard to imagine exactly how I’d feel if my children did not grow inside of me. Studies on bonding between parents and adopted children are interesting here. This article, http://magazine.byu.edu/g/?act=view&a=1692, says that parents’ ability to bond with adopted children depends on the parent. Some can, others not.

It would be interesting to see if mothers of adopted children stay home with them at the same rate as natural mothers. I know I’m straying from subject…

On a side note about the article, which mentioned the infidelities of political men versus women, and specifically named FDR, why was there no mention of Eleanor Roosevelt’s possible affairs? While it’s not been ‘proven,’ it’s generally suspected that she had affairs of her own, with men and women.

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