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		<title>FOCUS: Why Women Still Can't Ask the Right Questions</title>
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			<title>shanghaisage says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It seems to me as someone not in the US, that America seems to have complicated its life. I worked for seven years in Shanghai, and headed a team that was largely female. It was largely female because they were better - better in interviews when hired, better at work after being hired and never wore any gender difference on their sleeve. And no surprise, they earned better and rose faster. I dont have advise on how America can get there from here, but looking around and learning which of the other countries to emulate would be a starting place. And it can start smaller - an organization looking around to see which other organization to emulate. And no, countries that do better than America in some way (China in my case) arent basket cases or about to go Bellyup as someone earlier in this forum suggested. You have to allow that someone else may be doing better because they have got it right.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>shanghaisage</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2012 02:13:08 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>bmiluski says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I think you missed the whole idea/point of equal pay. Women are paid 70 cents on the dollar for exactly the same jobs that men have.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>bmiluski</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 08:30:17 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>midwestgirl says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It all comes down to a society that bases human value according to one's wealth. Women bosses are often much less understanding or flexible with the work life balance issues of women and men below them than are their male counterparts - a pretty low bar. Yet they behave this way even as they whine about they and their peers own difficulty finding that balance - women they perceive as "deserving" it because they have risen high enough in the hierarchy to "warrant" it. These women, like their male counterparts, embrace a dicrimination really based on econmic "class". They look down upon those who work for them in support staff jobs in the office, as teachers, nurses, or as nannies, maids, etc at home. Once you cease to identify with anyone you perceive as "servicing you" and therefor "below you", you start to find reasons for treating them differently(be it due to race, gender, title, profession, etc). Their needs become less worthy, less important, less "affordable", and certainly less deserving of your tax dollar or policy consideration. The relationship with "these people" becomes adversarial rather than cooperative. But in a service economy, who is not a servant? Is a teacher really worth less than a banker, or the person who cares for your child or your elderly parent worth less than the guy who sells your house? That is just really f**ked up. Yet that is the world created when monetary wealthy is valued above all.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>midwestgirl</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2012 09:43:30 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>mstrdig says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[outsourcing- the aim, dismantling the union.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>mstrdig</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2012 06:30:33 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>mstrdig says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[perhaps due to global malfeasance, initiated by the collapse of the wall street mortgage crises, the and hedge fund/derivative debacle (gee, who do we blame?) .]]></description>
			<dc:creator>mstrdig</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2012 06:29:15 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>mstrdig says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[i worked in a male dominated field, i definitely commanded, if it could be called, that a much less compensatory salary.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>mstrdig</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2012 06:26:20 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>AMLLLLL says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Another part of this equation is the campaign against unions. If you look at a chart from the end of the war until Reagan, the uptrend of CEO's salaries corresponds to the workers' pay. After 1985 workers' pay has almost flatlined, while CEO pay has continued on the same upward trajectory. Unions, while not perfect, have a value. If you need a watchdog, it's stupid to get rid of it if it bites someone; there is a solution, it's called balance.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>AMLLLLL</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 05:08:24 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>AMLLLLL says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Abigail, you make the mistake that many conservatives are spewing; it is not different fields, the issue is with the person working right next to you; a male nurse, policeman, secretary, etc. All make more than the woman doing the exact same work, with the same qualifications, in the same locale. I too made the same as my counterparts, but I was in a union.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>AMLLLLL</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 04:59:42 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>JLTalley says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Maybe it's time we realized that it isn't gender that determines someone's morality. We created corporations with a legal responsibility to pursue profit, nothing but profit, and only profit. We made it imperative for corporations to avoid any balance or social sensitivity in their actions. In short, we institutionaliz ed greed; anyone who makes it to the top of that system will -- of necessity -- be "cutthroat and immoral". Until we change the charter for corporations (such as B-Type corporations) we will distracted by the gender issue.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>JLTalley</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 12:12:06 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Glen says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[That has always been my mantra, fredboy, but now days, happiness will not buy gas, groceries, pay the rent or house payments, required insurance, taxes, and so on. Men and women are both stressed over having low paying jobs that barely keep them and their families going, even if the job is halfway satisfying. Thousands have NO jobs. If there are children involved, the stress increases tenfold.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Glen</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 11:19:20 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>mgwmgw says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ I am pleased that Australia is doing so well. Noni77, how would you suggest that America get from where we are to that situation?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>mgwmgw</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 10:23:19 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>cynnibunny says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Wolf takes on a difficult issue, one that is definitely in her court. But from my perspective, the social expectations of women in power have a long way to go. It comes as no surprise in these days of color-blind racism and polite discrimination, that women in power, like men, have left the social change arena and taken on that 'personal psychology' of individual choice. We have left the hard work of changing policy to someone else, or some other generation. Each individual woman, like each individual man, sees herself as the exception and handicap their social expectations to the will of some imagined (and immovable) mass. When they succeed in making it to the top (so their personal psychology tells them) that achievement will be made all the more triumphant knowing that it was achieved 'without quotas'. Meritocracy is a myth, Ms. Wolf. And the longer that intelligent people believe in that myth, the longer will stay 'the traditional quotas' that now exist to keep women and minorities and the lower classes away from power and away from opportunity. People - women and men - have got to shout out about these inequalities, but if they think that a day in the sun awaits them, they'll happily play along.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>cynnibunny</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 09:39:12 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>ABen says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Well said LisaH!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>ABen</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 08:02:49 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Majikman says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Back in the 70's when managed care came into existence, all employees were required to find a primary care doc. who would accept our co's insurance provider. We were given lists to select from. Not knowing any of those doc's I decided that it be a woman simply because she had to be smarter and work harder than a male to earn an MD. She was wonderful but was fired by the medical group she worked for because she gave too much time to her patients, cutting into their bottom line. The group refused to tell me where she went and tried to fob me off on one of their male docs. Well, I tracked her down, only to discover that she joined a practice of 90% women and that a slew of her former patients also did what I did. The best doc I ever had.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Majikman</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 20:25:43 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>L. Sabransky says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[No, they're not - their citizens are happier than ours and I'm pretty sure they're not any more belly up than the U.S. is. Or are are you under the illusion that we are still superior?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>L. Sabransky</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 19:49:10 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Texas Aggie says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[No, they aren't. Holland and Canada are doing quite well, a lot better than the US is. Canada had a lot tighter regulation of its banks so it didn't get hurt nearly as much as the US did. Holland just has a better society than the US does.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Texas Aggie</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 19:19:17 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Texas Aggie says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A strong fallacy in your comment about women going into low paying jobs is that when women go into jobs in large numbers, that profession rapidly becomes low paying. Examples are family medicine and pediatric medicine, veterinary medicine. These are professions that formerly were predominantly male but now are female, and the salaries have fallen. The other fallacy is that you are comparing salaries in totally different professions. I can assure you that within the same profession, men almost invariably make more than women. Ask Lily Ledbetter. Ask the people who work for WalMart.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Texas Aggie</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 19:17:14 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Holmes says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[And the USA is not going belly up? Why so many on food stamps and no universal health care as in Australia?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Holmes</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 18:10:38 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Greenery says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Women in "third-world" countries have had to balance work and family for centuries. It's nothing new. The only question is whether it's market-based work or subsistence-bas ed work.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Greenery</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 16:51:25 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Glen says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Have you looked beyond the "powerful successful women" that you cite as a pressure point to success? You might find the corruption and male dominated system influence on these women. Not to be proud of. The pinnacle of success is measured in both financial as well as male standards, which are reflected in early education forward. Parents, corporations, schools, etc., unabashedly promote male standards. I'm glad you are satisfied with your job. It is a real pleasure to achieve that.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Glen</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 15:21:24 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Clementine says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[@Noni77 - your comment is a breathtaking example of American ignorance and tunnel vision. Here's a news flash - in Australia 4 weeks paid vacation is the statutory MINIMUM, there is paid sick leave, mandatory employer contribution (10%) to superannuation, paid maternity leave and the minimum wage exceeds $17/hour (and yes and australian dollar is worth as much as a us dollar, sometimes more). On top of that we have nearly free health care, and taxes are LOWER not higher. Unemployment is between 4 and 5% and the economy is BOOMING, thanks very much. In fact the minimum wage in Australia FAR EXCEEDS median income in the US. So wake up an look around you instead of just reciting the mantras of the far right. Ensuring people have a decent income, decent health care and decent conditions of employment are good for the economy. It's time Americans woke up.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Clementine</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 15:07:47 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>fredboy says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[LisaH gets it. The key to life is happiness, not "measuring up." Secure men and women are free.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>fredboy</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 15:05:25 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>sj-ias says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Slaughter's article makes an important point, even though it wasn't stated very crisply. What really counts in the workplace is not just that women are taken seriously; what has to happen is that the workplace has to take family seriously, and respect family obligations on the part of all employees. Do that, and the distortions that now hurt women will diminish considerably. Wolf doesn't give Slaughter adequate credit for this insight.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>sj-ias</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:28:43 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>LisaH says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I think one of the biggest flaws with this whole debate is the continued acceptance that the "pinnacle" of success is measured in financial terms, not in happiness, quality of life, job satisfaction, etc. Did anyone stop to think that maybe the reason there are more men in top positions in corporate America is because there are just plain more men who are soul-less automatons who buy into the idea that more money equals more successful. FYI, I am a cum laude graduate of Wellesley College, so there is a lot of peer pressure to "live up to" the reputation of a school that has produced powerful, successful women like Madeline Albright, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Diane Sawyer. And the smartest thing I ever did was to take a job THAT I LOVE, where I feel like I make a difference for the planet every day, and make a fair wage, but nothing big. More money just means you can buy more stuff - and stuff is just, well, stuff.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>LisaH</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:17:00 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Donna Fritz says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I'm having trouble getting all worked up over there not being enough female corporate CEOs. When women reach that level in corporate hierarchies, they're every bit as cutthroat and immoral as their male counterparts.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Donna Fritz</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:14:48 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>fredboy says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Women are remarkably resourceful, resilient, and creative. Many I know in their 30s and 40s shoved aside the age-old myths and anchors of home ownership -- they did the math and resisted the lure of the money pit and equity nosedive -- and instead work, save, carefully invest and monitor their growing funds daily, all while championing positive lives and futures for themselves and those they love. They are independent of the bullshit expectations and economic bear traps of the past. They are, in so many ways, free.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>fredboy</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 13:55:24 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>sir docta dove says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Point taken that certain disciplines and professions are highly gendered one way or another and, as such, are valued as more or less rigorous/worthw hile/important/ deserving of higher monetary compensation. However, this comment blames the women who pursue professions in education, healthcare, the humanities, etc (whether this is because they choose to or because these are avenues that are more open to them) for that problem instead of acknowledging that this is a larger problem within a patriarchal and racist society which punishes women for having those jobs (while simultaneously, as you point out, making it harder for women [and, I'll add, people of color] to enter other professions). Sure, it's certainly important to work (from the small scale of raising individual children to putting institutional and public policies into place) toward making historically "male" (and middle class and white) professions more available to women, but it's as or more important to a) work to undo the gendered (and racialized) assumptions about certain kinds of work and its value (see, for instance, Woolf's point in this article about framing the raising of children as a public policy issue affecting families, workplaces, and societies instead of ghettoizing it as a "women's issue"), and b) work to better collectively understand -- and dismantle -- the structural and psychic systems of gender, racial, class, and national privilege that enable those assumptions about certain forms of labor.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>sir docta dove</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 13:50:24 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>readerz says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Many men are studying nursing, English, etc., but they also suffer from few available jobs or low-paying jobs in those fields. I am glad for your success, but my math says that students minus teachers equals no education; the teachers are necessary. A male friend drives a school bus so that he can afford to teach history in the local college.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>readerz</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 13:44:16 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>readerz says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The economy is hard on everybody; look at the article about student loan debt which affects adult career choices. I am always surprised when articles about a "glass ceiling" are the only response. This is a women's problem at the bottom of the corporate ladder as much as at the top, and also for supporting daycare and teachers. This article touches on that. Overall, people need to rethink and rewrite our banking laws, women's rights, victims' rights, and the apportionment of states' Senators and Electors in the Electoral College. There will never be a non-conservativ e "majority" until the actual majority of Americans has an equal voice. There are far fewer studies of diseases and conditions that affect women most of the time. But many women's groups and individual "experts" don't want to talk about that either, because it might make women look "weak" or "whiny." At the very least, all Americans should try to keep women from becoming even more discriminated against than we were. I was just denied coverage (by my insurance company and prescription insurance company) for two different drugs for rheumatoid arthritis that affects mostly... women. Shouldn't that be part of this story?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>readerz</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 13:39:47 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Noni77 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[And are not these countries Jazbing is referring to the ones about to go belly up economically?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Noni77</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 13:23:51 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Glen says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[That is not always the case Abigail. There are many women working the same jobs as men, making less than the men. Even in convenience stores women make less than any man hired. To assume that a particular career is going to to require less pay than a man, such are nursing or teaching, is to insult the value of that career, not to mention the education required to achieve such a career. Salaries are determined by those who set the values, rather than the importance of that job. People teaching and nursing, for instance, provide a service many would eschew, especially men, due to the talents and education being of lesser value. Humanitarian careers are no longer valued. It is all relative, but those who determine value are driven by politics and other issues that have no bearing on the talents of gender. Women have traditionally been relegated to lesser pay.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Glen</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 13:20:49 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>susienoodle says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[amen]]></description>
			<dc:creator>susienoodle</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 12:39:20 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Abigail says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[one of the reasons that women fail to earn as much income as men is that they choose fields where,in general, the salaries aren't high, eg nursing, teaching, English or other languages. I was the only woman in my Physics and Engineering classes (making it obvious if I had to cut a class when one of my kids was sick) and only one or two other women were in my math classes. I had no problem finding a job, and I earned as much as my male colleagues.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Abigail</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 12:18:43 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>L. Sabransky says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Americans' ethnocentrism and lack of education regarding other countries' government and culture comes back to bite us. People here have been programmed to be grateful for the meager amount of sick and vacation days they get. Almost every time I've told someone about countries - that are productive - that afford all workers a living wage, six weeks of vacation and subsidize child care, they are surprised. Some of these are the same people who think "Socialism" is a pejorative. Until we understand that our budget and policies are moral documents and represent our collective values, we will continue to send children to war rather than earnestly care for them.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>L. Sabransky</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 12:14:49 -0800</pubDate>
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