Chapeau bas for Michael Gray's post on the BlogHer conference! I strongly believe women deserve and should fight for equal rights and chances in any field of their life. But I really doubt they will ever obtain that by closing themselves into women-only circles.
The idea of succeeding is not to do well is a closed circle, it is to do well in the world. And the world is made up of boys and girls alike. So I should add a kudos to the Women 2.0 group of LinkedIn who also has quite a few men registered.
If BlogHer wanted to show us all what's right, why not have everything 50-50? Equal numbers of male and female speakers would have been closer to my ideals than a women only support group.
There's something I'd like to disagree with: dear Michael, there's a temporary huge difference between stay at home moms and dads. And that's the pregnancy and post-partum hassle. That's something no man will experience. And if you have more than one kid, well, it can amount to quite a huge period. Other than that, you're right, no real difference!
The idea of succeeding is not to do well is a closed circle, it is to do well in the world. And the world is made up of boys and girls alike. So I should add a kudos to the Women 2.0 group of LinkedIn who also has quite a few men registered.
If BlogHer wanted to show us all what's right, why not have everything 50-50? Equal numbers of male and female speakers would have been closer to my ideals than a women only support group.
There's something I'd like to disagree with: dear Michael, there's a temporary huge difference between stay at home moms and dads. And that's the pregnancy and post-partum hassle. That's something no man will experience. And if you have more than one kid, well, it can amount to quite a huge period. Other than that, you're right, no real difference!
3 comments:
i always find it funny that everyone thinks that just because women are 50% of the population, they should be 50% of everything.
like i read in a magazine that a female politician complained that only 10% of the politicians are females and that's a sign of discrimination. i don't think it is - not if we have women who do get there and get there in high places (see hilary clinton?) without people screaming at them 'ha, you're a woman'.
the truth is that we all have aspirations and inclinations. no-one screams discrimination because there's hardly any man in the philosophy college, or in the foreign language college. why should it be discrimination that there's hardly any woman in the politechnics?
men are men and women are women and they like doing different things and saying that is not discriminatory - it's a fact.
You are quite right! But when it comes to fields when both women and men exceed, I don't think going all female would make a better point than a 50-50 split :)
I think in our modern world there is no place for sex discrimination, it doesn’t exist any more , women can enter any field in work , politics, life without any problem , unless the old low self esteem they feel from being the weaker sex, something that pulls back women without noticing it is their own made, men can’t even accept or refuse the growing women interference in fields of life, it is like a flow and they only try to swim with it, gaining the best they can from the new situations it brings.
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