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To: jbe who wrote (44646)7/9/1999 9:14:00 AM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 108807
 
Maybe the female drive to achieve is similar to the male drive to achieve, and has been hobbled, as you say, but I see little evidence of that. I would resort to the bell curve and say that women tend to have a smaller drive to achieve, in the sense of building bridges, space stations, skyscrapers, writing symphonies, and the like.

Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keeffe are glorious, but they aren't in the same league as Michaelangelo or Vermeer.

And as for women as composers, oh, my Dear! I used to have a classical music radio show, and devoted one show to women composers. It stunk. Frau Schubert aside.

And you can't say that anything holds women back anymore, and they still are not as good as men in these things.

I don't know why, but facts are facts, and blaming men won't do.