Et si les femmes n’avaient plus besoin des gars?
Chronique de Margaret Wente dans le Globe and Mail
Extrait:
.« Magdalena Hinojosa, a striking-looking single woman, is a senior associate vice-president at the University of Texas. She’s learned that her job makes men uneasy. So when they ask her what she does, she simply tells them she works at the university, in the admissions office. “You have to hide who you are, at the beginning, until that person is comfortable with you,” she says. » (…)
Sur le même sujet ou presque
Kelly McParland du National Post
Et si les femmes n’avaient plus besoin des gars et que les gars s’en balancent?
« Men, on the other hand, have largely been ignored, on the apparent assumption that they had what they wanted and didn’t need any special care. As long as you taught them to read and write, and maybe do a little math, they were set. They’d reach working age and automatically set out to earn a living, because it was in their nature. It’s what they wanted.
Except maybe not. While the little girls have been getting lessons in striving, the little boys have been absorbing the message that they no longer have to. (They may look like they’re not paying attention in class, but, really, they do pick up on these things). If there’s no stigma to little Betty growing up to earn a fat paycheque, maybe there’s also no shame to little Billy refusing to do so. In the old days that would have been seen as a failure: litte Billy would have been a deadbeat if he didn’t pull his weight in the workforce. Now it’s a choice. »