Erey:  For a woman to be sucessfull as a welder or in any of the hard labor fields she is going to have to develop more physical strength and stamina than what most women possess.

Well, I was going to cheat, and build a small autonomous robot that could weld while I sat down and ate some Doritos.  :)

Jun 4, 2012 -- 1:20PM, REteach wrote:

I recently read an article noting that childbearing might be taking otherwise capable women out of certain fields, such as math and physics.  Improving national child care might help a lot of women--and men.

If women are stepping out of certain fields to take care of their children it likely has everything to do with the fact that they, as the mom, want to be the ones taking care of their children and not some child care provider no matter how good that provider is.

"It (the myth of the gender wage gap) persists because nobody wants to confront it. Men who confront it become the bad guy".

-Warren Farrell, three time member of the board of directors for NOW, feminist protester with Gloria Steinum in the '60s and '70s

This thread was abandoned too quickly.  There are some good points raised on the last two videos that were just ignored.

Ari,

Its like when enough light is shed on an issue and the left has no counter, they scurry and hide.

To a conservative, this is really common sense.

Everyone seeks better employment.  The key becomes on who is defining better.  For the purposes of the left, income descrepancy is the only issue.  But when you get into the real world women overwhelmingly would sacrifice some income for flexibility.  And the workplace has adjusted to its value.

I actually had a woman working for me that got both.    The quality of her work more than made up for the flexibility she enjoyed.