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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (1952)	9/9/1998 12:23:00 AM
From: Rick Slemmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Michelle: But I can assure you that if there was some societal edict or rule that said "no children without a husband, an one of you has to stay at home"... And you believe that the Republicans and/or conservatives would enact such an edict. Correct? RS

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (1952)	9/9/1998 11:11:00 AM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 67261

Slemmer was joking. I hope. If he really meant that, he doesn't live on this planet. When the major annual corporate retreat to plan the next year's strategy is being held in Hawaii the man can anxiously hang by his cell phone waiting for news on how his wife's delivery is coming. The wife -- well, I doubt she made the meeting. I don't know too many retreat leaders who are prepared to assist a birth on the floor of the conference room half-way through the presentation on "marketing strategies for the new ZAC product for 1999-2001." The day men can deliver babies and breast feed them for the first six months is the day I will reopen my mind to the possibility that single parent women and single parent men are treated equally in the workplace. (One would also point out that single parent men are rare enough that it doesn't cost the company much to feel good by making individual and special concessions for them. But single parent women are so prevalent that it would take a whole policy change, with significant costs to the organization. Ain't no way they will be treated identically.) I'm with you on this one.