Posted on 09/24/2010 5:18:16 AM PDT by AccuracyAcademia
Unemployment may be at record levels but academics are doing their level best to diversify a dwindling work force. “Work-family conflict is really a conflict over masculinity,” Joan C. Williams of the University of California posited at the Center for American Progress on September 16, 2010.
The founding director of the Center for WorkLife Law at the UC-Hastings College of the Law bemoaned the “breadwinner ideal” that she claims Americans still cling to. We have “this habit of measuring masculinity by paycheck,” she claimed at CAP, and “measuring masculinity by hours worked.”
“He’s a real man,” Williams said, describing the ethos she outlined. “He works 90 hours a week.”
“You become a man biologically at a certain age,” she admitted. Sonograms show that this distinction is noticeable in the womb.
“In the 1990s, men’s working hours increased,” she said. “Men’s household contributions dropped.”
“So did women’s labor force participation. So how do we jump start this gender revolution?” She admitted that it would be difficult in the middle of economic turmoil although not necessarily because of the economy.
She lamented that the current “political” situation would make her two recommended reforms difficult to achieve. Namely, she said:
* “We need new social subsidies” and
* “We need new worker’s rights.”
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Wonder how this is going to work when we return to barbarians.
•“We need new worker’s rights.”
WTF?
Talk about out-of-touch academics!!!
They truly live in worlds of their own and those worlds are soon going to come crashing about them. Unfortunately we are also going to be affected.
The airless idiocy expressed in the above is mind-boggling.
Another f****** overpaid academic lawyer with no clue about how business works trying to implement her 'gender revolution". Educated far beyond her abilities.
“Everything about socialism is sham and affectation.” 23.11 Ch23 Evil; Economic Harmonies - Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850
““Everything about socialism is sham and affectation.” 23.11 Ch23 Evil; Economic Harmonies - Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850”
good one, I’ll have to keep that!
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