I have to add that, as well as my personal family experiences, I speak from having spent 20+ years in pre-school education. And as one of the Bra-burning, Equal Rights Generation, I can guarantee we did everything we could to ensure equality of opportunity for the girls and boys in our care. I really wanted the children I taught to lose any so-called 'gender-appropriate' conditioning 'Society' - or their parents! - might be attempting to impose on them. I think we succeeded quite well, witness the fact that two of my sons are their children's Primary Carers while their wives are the main wage-earners, but I still say that I have observed that there are major gender differences which you cannot ignore!
It is now MHO that we should not be trying to do away with those differences; we should be celebrating them, but also fighting as hard as we ever did for the different qualities of each gender to be equally valued!
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Date: 2005-11-29 09:33 pm (UTC)It is now MHO that we should not be trying to do away with those differences; we should be celebrating them, but also fighting as hard as we ever did for the different qualities of each gender to be equally valued!