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Subject: Re: Mother needs no excuse
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Date: Sun, 2-Dec-84 00:31:32 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  2 00:31:32 1984
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Nf-From: ISM780!jeff    Nov 29 13:52:00 1984

> 	      There are some (most visibly feminist leaders) who are saying
> that parents really don't know how best to raise their children, indicating
> that we should turn the job over to "experts".

In THE SECOND STAGE, Betty Friedan explains that the whole point of the
women's movement wasn't to get every woman into the marketplace working
her way up to corporate ladder, but to show that women have a choice
about what they do.  It is equally valid to exercise that choice by
consciously deciding to stay home and raise children, as it is to be the
chairman of GM.  Claiming that feminism demands women go out and work
misses the whole point of the movement by substituting a new status quo
for the old one.