Re: [Phys-l] Women Earn 46% of Undergraduate Math Degrees but Represent Only 8% of Math Professors ??

[Hugh Haskell <hhaskell@mindspring.com>]

At 17:36  -0400 6/2/06, Herb Gottlieb wrote:
> Please try to be a bit more serious. I never suggested that women should
> be
> kept barefoot or continually pregnant.  But, I repeat that women should
> certainly remain at home and pay a lot more attention to the nutrition
> and well being of their children. I sincerely believe that society is
> now beginning to fall apart with both parents working while children
> wander
> about with little or no parental supervision.
But my point, Herb, was that this seems to be something we expect of 
women, but not of men. Why can't the men stay home and take care of 
the children? Why is it a tacit assumption that if children are not 
getting sufficient care, that the burden must fall on the mothers, 
rather than the fathers? Are men really so insecure that they cannot 
risk having to stay home with their children while the mother works? 
This of course assumes that either parent alone is capable of 
bringing in sufficient income to provide the family with adequate 
resources.

What about single parents? That is a common condition these days, and 
even more so among the lower economic echelons where affording 
day-care is pretty much out of the question. North Carolina offers a 
subsidy to people making less than a certain minimum wage, for day 
care, but it has consistently underfunded the program and the waiting 
list for day care subsidies from qualified recipients is now in 
excess of 30,000 children. These are from families where both parents 
have to work just to put food on the table, if there even are two 
parents available.

Hugh
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