Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!wmartin From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) Newsgroups: net.women,net.politics,net.social Subject: Re: Discrimination against women and statistics Message-ID: <11357@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 16:23:33 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.11357 Posted: Fri Jun 28 16:23:33 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Jul-85 07:45:10 EDT References: <482@ttidcc.UUCP> <8203@ucbvax.ARPA><457@unc.UUCP> <2566@randvax.UUCP> Reply-To: wmartin@brl-bmd.UUCP Distribution: net Organization: USAMC ALMSA Lines: 38 Xref: watmath net.women:6176 net.politics:9670 net.social:763 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