Feminists must be besides themselves, their continued and ongoing haranguing of women has met it inevitable resistance, basically women are telling feminists to bugger off and screw someone else's life up, only there is no one left on the planet to contaminate with their poison..
I can see the end result now..
Ex feminists, former professor of women studies looking for a position..
Any takers ?
Any ??
That's what I thought..
BBC: Sex Roles Proving Resistant to Change
By Robert Franklin, Esq. | May 24, 2009
Hard on the heels of a study of University of Chicago MBAs and one of attorneys in Michigan, comes another study done for the BBC in connection with its upcoming series "The Trouble with Working Women." And its findings corroborate those two U.S. studies.
Among other things, the British Equality and Human Rights Commission has criticized the government for not equalizing parental leave laws. Currently, women get nine months of leave from work while men get only two weeks. The law is scheduled to become even more unequal, expanding women's leave to 12 months while men's remains the same.
The study reported on here reveals that, if men's leave were expanded, few (7%) would make use of it (BBC, 5/18/09). Still fewer women (4%) would turn over child care to their husbands even if they did want to use their leave. Add to that the fact that two-thirds of women say they only work due to economic necessity, and a picture develops of a society whose sex roles are proving to be less mutable than once thought.
As British researcher Dr. Catherine Hakim said only recently, "The myth that all or most women would be just as careerist as men, if only they were given the opportunity has been exploded."
As with the recent American studies, men and women in the UK start their working lives earning about the same, but when children come along, the women tend to fall back to care for the children. The figures on parental leave preferences bear that out. Women tend to do more childcare and less paid work than do men. Men are the opposite. The wage gap is a matter of choice, not of discrimination.
But, the same cannot be said of the childcare gap in which women leave men behind. The reason that it's safe to say that women work less out of their own choice is that there aren't any legal impediments to their choosing work over baby. With men and childcare, though, there are plenty of impediments, as the parental leave law shows.
As things stand, a British dad might want to stay home with his son or daughter, but could, after two weeks legally be penalized at work for doing so. Add that to the usual inequalities in custody and visitation, and the other de jure ways British laws and practices separate fathers from children, and it becomes impossible to claim that men's failure to spend more time with their children is a free choice.
In short, we need to give fathers equal rights in family courts. It would also help if popular culture eased off on its relentless denigration of dads. Accomplish those things and let's see how fathers respond. My guess is that, with equality of opportunity, women will still do most of the childcare and men most of the paid work. But until we at least achieve legal equality, we won't know for sure.
A good place to start in the UK would be to equalize family leave policies. If hordes of men don't utilize it, nothing's been lost. And what's been gained is equality of opportunity that surely many men will take advantage of. Finally, there's a lot to be said for a government's doing the right thing even if the results aren't what you'd hope. And giving fathers an equal opportunity to care for their children is certainly the right thing.
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