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  From:  David (DavidABrown)    Nov-11 4:26 pm  
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           Feminism Is Mugged By Reality

Nov. 12, 2003             by:  Phyllis Schlafly

The feminist revolution that swept across America in the 1970s
promoted the dream of a land in which at least half of corporate
officers, Fortune 500 C.E.Os, partners in law firms, and doctors
would be women. The feminist movement was always elitist; it was
about getting political and corporate power for educated women. 

But a funny thing happened on the way to achieving that promise.
Feminism was mugged by the reality that most women don't seek
those goals. 

How the best and the brightest are rejecting the career track laid out
for them by the feminists is detailed in a lengthy new article titled
"The Opt-Out Revolution" by Lisa Belkin in the persistently feminist
New York Times Magazine. That is the same publication that a few
years ago featured a cover glamorizing the feminists' number-one role
model as Saint Hillary Clinton in radiant white robes. 

Ms. Belkin interviewed hundreds of women and presented as typical
a group in Atlanta, all of whom had graduated from Princeton more or
less twenty years ago, earned advanced degrees in law or business
from other prestigious institutions such as Harvard and Columbia,
and waited until their thirties to marry and have children because their
careers were so exciting. 

Eager graduates during the heyday of feminism, they felt both
entitled and obligated to make good. As one of them told Ms. Belkin,
what she then wanted was to be "a confirmed single person,
childless, a world traveler." 

These Atlanta women are typical: for the last couple of decades,
roughly half of M.B.A.s, J.D.s, and M.D.s have been granted to
women. In the feminist game plan, these are the very women who
should now be at the top of the business and professional world,
wielding the fantasy power attributed to the tiny percentage at the
top. 

But of these ten Princeton graduates interviewed by Ms. Belkin at a
book-club meeting, five are not employed outside the home, one is in
business with her husband, one is employed part time, two freelance,
and the only one with a full-time job has no children. Nationwide, only
16 percent of corporate officers are women, only eight Fortune 500
companies have female C.E.O.s., and only 38 percent of Harvard
Business School 1980s female graduates are now working full time. 

Feminist ideology for years has preached that if women fail to cross
those thresholds of power, it is because women are held down by a
"glass ceiling" imposed by a discriminatory and oppressive male-
dominated society. But these smart, talented, successful women
told Ms. Belkin that they opted out of their accelerating careers
voluntarily. 

The work days kept getting longer and longer, and the women walked
away from six-figure incomes. Typical comments were: "I don't want
to be on the fast track leading to a partnership at a prestigious law
firm." "I don't want to conquer the world; I don't want that kind of life." 

One easily predictable explanation for this attitude is, in one Belkin
quote, that many women never get near the glass ceiling because
"they are stopped long before by the maternal wall." 

These women don't admit that they abandoned the workforce
because their children needed them. They said they opted out
because "life got in the way"; they were "no longer willing to work as
hard, commuting, navigating office politics," and "balancing all that
with the needs of a family." 

One woman told Ms. Belkin that she is just not interested "in forging
ahead and climbing a power structure," and "that is one of the
inherent differences between the sexes." She quickly caught herself
after making such a politically incorrect statement, adding, "to turn
that into dogma is dangerous and false." 

One of the Atlanta group staunchly maintained that "the exodus of
professional women from the workplace isn't really about
motherhood; it's really about work. ... Quitting is driven as much from
the job- dissatisfaction side as from the pull-to-motherhood side." 

Princeton University, a former male citadel, is now run largely by
women, and Ms. Belkin interviewed the president, Shirley Tilghman.
Commenting on her current crop of female students, she said that for
every one "who looks at an Amy [Gutmann, the Provost] or an
Ann-Marie [Slaughter, dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public
and International Affairs] and says, 'I want to be like her,' there are
three who say, 'I want to be anything but her.'" 

It turns out that the workplace (like child care) has its drudgery, its
long hours, its repetitious duties, its demands that an employee
accommodate herself to the schedule of others. Maybe the home is
a pleasanter and more fulfilling work environment than the office, after
all. 

I wonder if someday a feminist will ever say the office is "a
comfortable concentration camp," as Betty Friedan famously
described the home of an affluent suburban housewife. Or if a
feminist will ever admit that there is an eternal difference between
men and women in their goals and in how they want to live their lives.

Read this column online:
http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2003/nov03/03-11-12.shtml




David A. Brown
Basic Christian: Forum
www.BasicChristian.org

 
  
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  From:  LenBenHEAR/LIFE_or_death:SEE: John 3:36 (franknsense)    Nov-13 2:33 am  
To:  David (DavidABrown)    (2 of 4)  
 
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FIVE STARS for sister Phyllis. she's got it right: 
feminism is nothing but rebellious, self-seeking selfishness 
disguised as "the great promise of SELF-fulfillment." ! 

- it leads, instead, to a labyrinth of misery and stress 
and isolation from GOD's intended plan and purposes for men 
AND women. ! 

militant feminism, lesbianism, and abortion are three closely linked 
evils in today's world that is destroying men and women 
and families relationships left and right. 


~ CHOICES. ~


 
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* He is looking for REALITY: not pretense! * 


Daniel 12:10: Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried;

but the wicked shall do wickedly:

and none of the wicked shall understand; 

--> but the wise shall understand. <-- 


---> Isaiah 54:15-17 * Psalm 35:1-8,22,23 * <---
*LenBenHear/FranknSense/SEE: Romans 8:14 + John 3:8 and

~~~ I Cor.1:15-16; 4:3-5 ~~~

VINCIT OMNIA VERITAS: * There is a time for mercy...and a time for Judgement. * - (which one you get depends upon your honesty and humility before GOD)


sanctification. 




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and YOU will be EITHER the cross on His right...or the cross on His left. - they symbolize the whole of humanity in relation to Him: The Savior and Judge of every soul. THIS I declare to you in the authority of His Name and Word: you are EITHER {and WILL be either} one or the other. ~ Selah. {pause and ponder that very carefully} for it is an ETERNAL TRUTH. 
 
  
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  From:  8320john1   Nov-13 6:02 am  
To:  LenBenHEAR/LIFE_or_death:SEE: John 3:36 (franknsense)   (3 of 4)  
 
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Amen!! 
A good subject to post for Trinity and the girls. :)- 

Peace and Blessings,
 
  
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   From:  LenBenHEAR/LIFE_or_death:SEE: John 3:36 (franknsense)    Nov-13 11:21 pm  
To:  8320john1   (4 of 4)  
 
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LOL ! 
;^) 

they're a pretty bad bunch once you "cross" them. 


~ CHOICES. ~


-----------------------------
* He is looking for REALITY: not pretense! * 


Daniel 12:10: Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried;

but the wicked shall do wickedly:

and none of the wicked shall understand; 

--> but the wise shall understand. <-- 


---> Isaiah 54:15-17 * Psalm 35:1-8,22,23 * <---
*LenBenHear/FranknSense/SEE: Romans 8:14 + John 3:8 and

~~~ I Cor.1:15-16; 4:3-5 ~~~

VINCIT OMNIA VERITAS: * There is a time for mercy...and a time for Judgement. * - (which one you get depends upon your honesty and humility before GOD)


sanctification. 




==================================

and YOU will be EITHER the cross on His right...or the cross on His left. - they symbolize the whole of humanity in relation to Him: The Savior and Judge of every soul. THIS I declare to you in the authority of His Name and Word: you are EITHER {and WILL be either} one or the other. ~ Selah. {pause and ponder that very carefully} for it is an ETERNAL TRUTH. 
 
  
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