On Dec 9, 2008, at 1:04 PM, David B. Shemano wrote:
So present day feminism is acceptance that men will be construction workers and women will be be social workers, teachers and librarians? I am glad present day feminism has finally caught up with the 1950s. Does this mean the gender wars are over and we can go back to having fun like they do on Mad Men?
It doesn't have to accept that division of labor. There's no reason why you couldn't construct a retrofitting program with an affirmative action component to train women to be carpenters and plumbers.
Some years ago, my wife, Liza Featherstone, wrote a piece on vocational education in New York City. It's still deeply gendered even at the high school level, with women steered into hairdressing and men into auto repair. That doesn't have to be.
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