[Cathryn Crawford]

My statement was generalized deliberately. Far be it from me to try to actually define what "equal rights" actually mean.

I think that if a woman does the same job as a man and does it just as well, she deserves the same pay.

On the other hand, I think that if women get maternity leave, men should get paternity leave.

[Tax-chick]

if women get maternity leave, men should get paternity leave

See, but that assumes that the only really important thing either men or women do is paid labor. That's nonsense, and more to the point, ultimately destructive of a society - talk to some of our immigration-fixated FReepers.

"Equal rights" to be a wage-slave? And leave my kids with an illegal-immigrant sub-minimum-wage-slave? No thanks! I want "unequal rights" to be a mother, because otherwise our society is toast! You definitely want ME, and not the alternatives, raising the next generation of voters!