Our story so far: I innocently posted a url for an article discussing the above. Nancy Melucci livened things up by declaring: > > > it also pains me that this article was published in a magazine that > > features special report articles on why the wage gap between men and > > women does not REALLY exist (featuring ONLY verbal arguments, no > > figures or charts or data of any kind).
and David Epstein informed us that: > > It took only about ten seconds of Web searching to learn that the > innocuously named _Women's Quarterly_ is a mouthpiece for the > hiliariously named Independent Women's Forum--read all about 'em at > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A25123-2001Apr30 Well, I suppose it wouldn't do any good to suggest that, whatever the organization or the journal that prints it, that the article be considered on its merits. And, unaccustomed as I am to being identified with conservative causes (especially those in the Excited States), I find myself in considerable agreement with what else is in that revealing Washington Post article. My guess is that the group isn't really traditional conservative but a coalition against radical (that is, man-hating or gender) feminism. Note the reluctance to take a stand on abortion, and the absence of a belief that women's place is in the home or submissive to their husbands. I did, in fact, briefly check out who was behind the web site before I posted, and was encouraged to find the name of Christina Hoff Sommers prominently displayed as the chair of its national advisory board. I now see that Judith Kleinfeld is also on the list, another whose work I've long admired. So I'm not particularly bothered by the fact that this essay was published by those people. Gee, I even read stuff published by the American Psychological Association, and you know what _those_ people stand for. -Stephen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stephen Black, Ph.D. tel: (819) 822-9600 ext 2470 Department of Psychology fax: (819) 822-9661 Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lennoxville, QC J1M 1Z7 Canada Department web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy Check out TIPS listserv for teachers of psychology at: http://www.frostburg.edu/dept/psyc/southerly/tips/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
