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From: gadfly@ihu1m.UUCP (Gadfly)
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Subject: Re: Comparable worth -- what I suggest instead
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Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 10:06:01 EDT
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> Why can't feminist spokeswomen accept what I'm saying? ... 
> 
> One of the reasons -- the biggest, I'll bet -- for the "59 cents"
> wage gap is that girls/women are DISCOURAGED BY SOCIETY from taking
> certain jobs; jobs that are considered "men's work"...
> 
> So why aren't feminists raising hell (MORE hell than they raise
> over "comparable worth") over the way girls are brought up to be
> qualified for, and interested in, only "women's work"?
> 
> --Paul "Turn up those flames -- I hate cold weather!" Torek

What makes you think they're not, Paul?  We attack the mythology
through its institutions.  (How else can you do it, except by writing
books that you don't read or speaking at rallies you don't attend?)
One way to get young girls interested in non-traditional work is to
have more women for them to see in non-traditional roles.  And thus
feminists' passionate support for affirmative action programs, and
of course, abortion rights.   The oppression of women is an insidious
cycle of restrictive upbringing and constricted thinking.  We try to
break it anywhere we can.

There is a substantial amount of feminist literature dealing with
the causes of women's restrictive roles in western society,
incidentally.  I heartily recommend (for about the 5th time in this
newsgroup) Dorothy Dinnerstein's "The Mermaid and the Minotaur".
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