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From: susan@vaxwaller.UUCP (Susan Finkelman)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Equal pay for comparable work & families
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Date: Thu, 28-Feb-85 14:17:08 EST
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> 
> 	If anyone seriously cares to argue that men can't be replaced
> as easily to perform as parent I think that they will see that a good
> contract house can provide a more than qualified replacement with no
> effort other than perhaps sorting though all the choices available.
> This then makes it very easy for men to assume part of the burden/role
> of having children and they can as soon as society begins to realize
> that all children born today have (somewhere) 2 (TWO) parents without
> either one of which there would have been no child to worry about 
> raising.
> 
> Jeanette L.Zobjeck

Raising kids is a family issue, not a woman's issue.  Finding daycare
is a people's problem, not a woman's problem.  I am tired of hearing
"oh, yeah, my wife has problems finding daycare, too"

And I've noticed very few men who are daycare providers, although it
does seem like an important job. (ditto elementary school teachers, 
probably for the same reason - money)