From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Tue May 21 2002 - 00:25:41 MDT
Phil Osborn:
>Or how about "when her husband has to move to stay with his career, she
>will probably quit and leave with him." Or, "if she gets pregnant, there
>is a good chance that she will take extended leave a
In physics we call this the 'two-body problem'. This is the situation
where both woman and spouse have scientific careers in the same or
similar fields and cannot find work in the same location. Companies,
research institutes and universities are trying different approaches for
solving the problem. Look in google if you wish to think to think about
solutions to this problem:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=two-body+problem+careers+spouses&btnG=Google+Searchh
>Any set of memes that is so overwhelmingly powerful that it convinces
>people to throw away their lives is not going to die quietly. I contend
>that "modern" women today are still dominated by that suicidal meme set,
>which includes of course, paramountly "the wonders and joys of
>sacrificing ones self for ones children," and implicitly a whole
>additional set of supporting memes.
It's called love. I know men who have moved with their wives, giving
precedence to her career too.
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I used to work for a fellow, who, I discovered to my dismay, carried the
opinion that women had less value than men. In the time that I was
working at that research institute, every woman scientist in his branch
left, including me. I went to go work in another branch. Fortunately
the women in my old boss's branch were tough, and no one left science.
The fact that his branch had almost no women working there and were
leaving in droves, did not escape the notice of the director of that
astrophysics division either. The director's solution to the problem was
to quietly let the guy retire, since he was due to retire within a
couple of years, and so my old boss did. I hope you retire soon, Phil.
Amara
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