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Old 02-26-2008, 07:29 PM   #10
DanaC
We have to go back, Kate!
 
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Feck....I really was going to bed, why did I automatically click the New Posts button?

This isn't about blaming men. I do not hold men resonsible for this situation. Our society (and the market) has evolved into what it is because of a complex set of factors. There is no conspiracy by men to keep women barefoot, pregnant and underpaid. Even when male union workers were fighting to keep women out of their trades in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, women were also arguing that case. This isn't about men doing something to women, this about society having evolved in a particular way and leading to a situation where one sex is more economically powerful than the other. Both sexes have played their part (and continue to play their parts) in that evolution. Both sexes will play their part in how society continues to evolve.
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