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To: epicure who wrote (47523)	1/31/2008 10:14:47 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541946

The "feminization of poverty" has been a serious concern for some time. I think it relates more to the issue of trying to assure "equal pay for equal work" than to whether women work inside or outside the home. Or both. Again, it's a literature I knew as recently as the early 90s but moved to other topical interests. So I can't swear to the themes in it now. Ergo, I'd rather women weren't working and were supervising their children and their neighborhoods. Here we disagree. I think that leads backwards. I would prefer we break the back of male resistance to considering the home an equal responsibility. And that means that all those institutions that assume a woman at home should be altered to expect either a male or female--schools, doctors, day care places, you name it. But my own sense is that the developments that were underway in the middle 70s just stopped somewhere in there. And the culture which was beginning to legitimize the male presence at home, just simply either stopped or began to reverse itself. I hope I'm wrong. Just subjective judgment here.