From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Tue May 21 2002 - 09:48:33 MDT
Whether the wage gap is true or not, Samantha's quote
> because of such notions
> that she "probably has a man to help take care of her"
> or "is liable to find one and disappear to make
> babies".
really _is_ spoken today, and during the last 10 years. My old boss that
I described previously even told others that my boyfriend was probably
doing my coding work for me, despite the fact that I was on mountaintops
at telescopes at my boss' side for years, programming happily away.
This is 2002, not the Middle Ages. Why is it so difficult to accept the
differences between the genders, and instead look for lame excuses to
say one has a lesser value? It is unacceptable, period, to say that one
has a lesser value than another, whether it is a man, a woman, or any
variation in the spectrum between.
We should be *celebrating* the differences between genders and using
those differences to make our lives richer.
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