Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/28/84; site lll-crg.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!intelca!qantel!dual!lll-crg!muffy From: muffy@lll-crg.ARPA (Muffy Barkocy) Newsgroups: net.women,net.social Subject: Re: "pleasant" work vs. "dangerous" work Message-ID: <688@lll-crg.ARPA> Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 04:23:18 EDT Article-I.D.: lll-crg.688 Posted: Wed Jul 10 04:23:18 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 11:31:43 EDT References: <826@oddjob.UUCP> <309@kontron.UUCP> Reply-To: muffy@lll-crg.UUCP (Muffy Barkocy) Organization: Lawrence Livermore Labs, CRG group Lines: 29 Xref: watmath net.women:6359 net.social:816 Summary: In article <309@kontron.UUCP> cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes: > >Also, until very recently, divorced fathers seldom were given custody of >the kids (I'm not sure that they usually wanted them, either). This is >why men ended up primary breadwinner jobs. (Also, a lot of employers >perceived that the man's job was essential to put bread on the table, and >a woman's job was not. The reasoning was that a single woman didn't have >kids to support (largely true, until the last few years), and a married >woman was supported by her husband (largely untrue, but a lot of people >believed it because they wanted things to be this way). Employers >were excessively concerned with "social good" in this respect.) > I note a major contradiction here. 1) Divorced fathers were not given custody. This implies that divorced *mothers* were. We now have a single (divorced) woman with children to take care of, which conflicts with 2) a single woman would not have kids to support. Explain, please? >boxes> > >It could be the way you are describing it, or it could be well-intentioned >but ignorant efforts to protect a "girl" from "awful work". A little >education would have gone a long way. > What is so "awful" about lifting things? If the person is capable, let them. Muffy