Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!ihlpl!zubbie From: zubbie@ihlpl.UUCP (Jeanette Zobjeck) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Changing Roles Message-ID: <202@ihlpl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 20:28:56 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlpl.202 Posted: Mon Jul 8 20:28:56 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jul-85 07:38:07 EDT References: <993@ubc-vision.CDN> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 49 > > > There is no getting around the fact that the differences between > > men and women go beyond the anatomical to the social. To say > > that women are more closely in tune with their emotions is not > > to say that they are superior, just different. If it sometimes > > > Moira Mallison > > > No differences between men and women (other than the physical) have been > proven. Saying that women are "just different" is the kind of thing that > helps to strengthen the "feminine mystique" that women (and men as a result) > have been suffering from for a long time. > > Farzin Mokhtarian > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- While there is truth to this ( it has been the rallying cry of many who would keep women *** in their place ***, It is also true that men and women are more different that the obvious physical body which houses them. Some of this difference is acquired and can be changed some of it is not and is due to the world view which the individual develops from behind their eyeballs. Our bodies (male or female) react to different stimuli uniquely and those reactions are what makes us different. Women by nature are more bound by their bodies than are men. From an ability standpoint there is no eveidence that a woman can or will be any less or more than a man in the same situation (all other factors like education etc., being equal). If the natural differences between men and women could be eliminated there would of course be no way to distinguish between either group and then people could progress as best they could based on what they were capable of doing. All that is asked by most women I know is that men overlook the purely physical differences, forget they exist for the purposes of conducting business or producing profitable work. The trouble is is that a lot of men take a single look at a woman and establish an opinion as to her abilities and goals before they even know her name. I once worked for a man who could tell you the **measurements** of any woman he met even though he might not remember her name if she was introduced to him. (He also hired his secretary for her bust size.) I know, I know not every man is like that but the fact remains many are. -- Jeanette Zobjeck ihnp4!ihlpl!zubbie