[Edu-sig] Re: [Tutor] Girls, women and Programming (- andPython)

[djr]

Aha, in response to Bea's post, let me clarify my earlier 
remarks by saying that by "equilibrium point", I did not mean 
equal between men and women's salaries--I meant that both have 
changed--gone down in my view. I am well aware that typically 
men's to women's is 1 to 0.59 (or something on that order).

What I meant is that total household income, it my unfounded suspicion,
has gone down in terms of its ability to buy a certain standard of living
as compared to 50 years ago.  Thus, while initially a family may have 
been able to live a little better by having both parties work, I think
over time, the ability of that income to buy that standard of living has
decreased.  I think it's probably a combination of employer's realizing 
there are more people out there and therefore they can pay a little less
(and even less to the woman of the family) and costs of that standard of 
living getting bid up a little more.

By describing this situation which I believe is fairly factual and generally
the norm, I don't mean to be approving of it--just to describe it.

The net result is that in fact you more than likely have to 'take a vow
of poverty' (tongue somewhat in cheek here) to raise your 
children in the style to which you think they should be raised -- particularly if that style is one which says its overall better if
when they come 
home on the school bus there's a mom or a dad there
to welcome them.  If one is luckly, it is still possible to live a somewhat
imporverished life in order to achieve that.  In some areas of the world 
(as we have heard on this list), that is not even possible -- which is unfortunate.

My apologies to the list for wading through this off topic matter even more.
If anyone wants to discuss further I invite them to write me directly.

--D.


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Dr. David J. Ritchie, Sr.
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