Theos-Talk Archives (December 1995 Message tl00228)

>> The current
>> movement toward "equality" is one in which women are trying
>> to be more like men.
>>
>This is a pretty sweeping generalization Jerry - I don't see
>how you could reasonably substantiate it.

All statements made regarding people are gross
generalizations and there are always a lot of exceptions.
However I do a lot of reading including psychology and
there is a real problem today because a lot of women see
"equality" as being more masculine i.e. some requirements
to break through the "glass ceiling" are to devote your life to
the company store to show drive and ambition to be dominant
and agressive--all normally considered as masculine traits but
required in our corporate business world today. In the process
many women repress their own femininity and suffer for it.
Case in point would be the career woman who must renounce
her inner desires for children--balancing a career and
motherhood is a BIG problem in this country and there is no
real answer to it in sight. Good day care for example is hard to
find. Men on the other hand don't generally have this problem
of course some do widowers and so on. Anyway psychologists
are telling us that women should not have to renounce or repress
their femininty in order to have a career or own a business. My
wife used to own and run a computer store so I know that this
can be done--but it is not easy and some women have a hard
time with it. In fact my wife quit her store after 05 years largely
out of frustration and went back to being a foster parent. Why is
all of this true? Probably because we have a male-dominated
business/corporate world today. Its us men who have laid down
all the rules.

Jerry S.