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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.women,net.politics,net.social
Subject: Re: Discrimination against women and statistics
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Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 16:23:33 EDT
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In article <2566@randvax.UUCP> edhall@rand-unix.UUCP (Ed Hall) writes:
>  Men benifit tremendously from marriage, both economically
>and in terms of getting someone to take care of them.  Women benifit
>far less, but if the other alternatives are restricted it won't seem as
>bad.
>
Well, I think that *my* wife has gotten a LOT of economic benefits from
our marriage. When we married, we both worked full time, at
professional-level Army jobs. Her marriage has allowed her to still live
comfortably, while at the same time:

a) Quitting her government job.

b) Withdrawing her accumulated retirement benefits, and using that plus
even a larger amount from my savings to open and furnish a retail
business, which lasted less than a year, but which satisfied a long-held
desire she had.

c) Living for at least a year without holding any job at all.

d) Choosing to then work as a temporary, so she can work or not as she
wishes.

e) Spending her income on her hobbies and a few groceries, while my
income goes to support the household, buys IRA's for both of us, buys
more of her (and mine, admittedly) hobby stuff, and all other expenses.

Sounds to me like she got a pretty good deal out of this...

Now, I accept that the only reason this situation is at all possible is
because we have chosen to have no children or automobiles, both of which
are infinite money sinks. But nobody is *forcing* any of the poor
downtrodden masses, or whoever else you are referring to, to behave
differently than we do -- they act differently because they choose to do
so. I think they are making the wrong choices, and we made the right
ones, and I think the evidence supports my correctness.

Will