TWENTIETH CENTURY FEMINISM RE-EVALUATED BY SOCIAL STUDY IN 2009.... Catherine Hakim, a senior research fellow at the London School of Economics says FEMALE CAREERIST MYTH EXPOLDED “The myth that all or most women would be just as careerist as men, if only they were given the opportunity, has been exploded.” “The majority of dual-income couples are not dual-career couples, dual-income couples outnumber dual-career couples by at least two to one. When women enter a male profession en masse, they don't become more like men. It's the profession that changes to the way women wants... THE 20 PERCENT RATIO RULE 20 per cent ratio rule is the ratio of women to men in many senior jobs: top management, politics, partnerships in big firms.... THE REASON: all of these jobs require long apprenticeships, long hours and hard work over many years. It's not that women aren't up to it.... They just have other preferences..... EMPLOYMENT EQUITY LAWS FOR WOMEN BACKFIRES employment barrier being broken down but privileges like parental leave for men taken but women do the childrearing, pay gaps not narrowing,  most men working in the private sector and most women in the public sector.... JOB FLEXIBILITY AND WORK-LIFE BALANCE NO HELP FOR WOMEN TO BREAK THE GLASS CEILING Working like hell for years and years gets you to the top... Maybe our granddaughters will make these different choices..... .....WHAT DOES SCIENCES OF LIFE AND CREATION CALLED vED IN sNskRUt LANGUAGE   HAS TO SHARE ABOUT FEMINISM.....     - Feminism in vED means a  human female operates in life with a man as her husband to create life and maintain life in accordance with the rules and regulations of DHARm which is the absolute operating system of life to operate as designed by the Creator...      -  The rules of feminism in vED affords full partnership with equality of responsibility between man and woman to have an operational fit with as  Creator's designs of  man and woman to perform the specialized functions of life... and on a daily basis affords dignity, honour appreciation and reverence to woman by man through mutually offered promises of s`pt-pDi by a groom and bride to sanctify and seal the marriage.....whereby a husband provides and the wife manages responsibly all that is provided with each other fully caring and loving to each other's physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual needs to each other's satisfaction including meeting vED ordained need criteria of the family and the need criteria for daily and each of the six seasonal lifestyles plus empowering in all ways the highest performance of the husband as the head and provider for the family ....        -  The rules of feminism affords women all rights to perform functions of life as men do as life circumstances demand.... but with mutual agreement between man and woman when exceptions occur to the designed and ordained  functions as per Creator's design...like fighting wars, being national rulers or holding national offices, heading a family, sustaining a family, acting as ambassador for the husband anywhere anytime for any reason...      -  The rules of feminism provides full mutual protection by a man and a woman as husband and wife to uphold the sacredness and sanctity of the union of man and woman in marriage through what is called observance of rules of pti-vRt by wife and pt`ni-vRt by husband....to be exclusively for each other and support each other exclusively without buts and ifs till death do them apart....       -  In brief overview as noted above,  the rules of feminism in vED is for a man and a woman as a husband and wife to have a wholesome family life without inflicting on each other pains and suffering through thoughts, words and physical kARm..for a happier day tomorrow than today and forever till death do them apart...and in the next life-journey with other pairings....     (The above vEDik take is contributed to today's news for sharing the life knowledge given by Creator pRjaapti bRHmaa to humanity so as to have a life operation fit to Creator's life design...because when one does not operate a car to manufacturer's operation and maintenance manual then the car at the best becomes a costly suffering....This vED knowledge-sharing was by PVAF's regular contributor Champaklal Dajibhai Mistry of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada from his continuing evergreen study of his vED library....Should YOU wish to learn in-depth version of the above vEDik take please contact Champaklal through PVAF by email by clicking here...please quote the news title.... )   PVAF is publishing today's news item....simply in compliance with its primary mandate...to empower humanity with TRUE KNOWLEDGE with which to have a harmonious, peaceful and happy co-existence among its infinite diversity including existing as a man and a woman....which existence is becoming increasingly confrontational  due to the lack of TRUE KNOWLEDGE about how a man and a woman need to co-exist in various roles during a life journey from childhood through to adulthood and old age..... Saying so.....Now after taking in the overview of today's news item about the status of feminism today....and also the vEDik take on feminism itself....to read the entire news item and a quick overview of the history of feminism on the next webpage please click on the next line.....

The untold truth about feminism o do the mom-and-family thing – not because they must, but because they can and they prefer to do so...... (From Canadian Globe and Mail: Saturday, September 26, 2009: Margaret Wente; mwente@globeandmail.com0   FEMINIST ADOPTS The Opt-Out Revolution Six years ago, The New York Times magazine published a ground-breaking cover story called The Opt-Out Revolution. It explored the lives of a group of female Princeton graduates – talented, educated, accomplished beneficiaries of the feminist revolution – who had freely chosen to give up a full-time career path for a life of stay-at-home mothering and occasional work. They hadn't expected to make these choices, but they did. The piece highlighted the fatal flaw in the feminist assumption – a flaw many of us still embrace:      -   Women – specifically, educated professional women – were supposed to achieve like men. Once the barriers came down, once the playing field was levelled, they were supposed to march toward the future and take rightful ownership of the universe, or at the very least, ownership of their half,” wrote the author, Lisa Belkin. Not from where I sit. At the office, I'm surrounded by fathers of young kids. They are highly involved with their families. They take parental leave and share the housework. Their wives are as accomplished as they are. But in most cases it's the men who are the primary earners, for now, and probably for years to come. Their wives have stepped back from the career track – not because they must, but because they can. When I was younger, I, too, assumed that most highly educated women would be like me – drawn to the challenges and rewards of a full-fledged career. I was floored (and a bit cheesed off) when some of them dropped out to have babies and join the PTA; 30 years later, I'm catching up with them. Not a single one regrets her choice, or misses the career she never had. THE 20 PERCENT RATIO RULE A large and persuasive body of research shows that it is these choices – not institutional and structural barriers, or lack of day care, or lingering systemic discrimination, or unconscious stereotyping – that explain what I've come to call the 20 per cent ratio. That is still the ratio of women to men in many senior jobs: top management, politics, partnerships in big firms, editors-in-chief of major newspapers. In some areas, the ratio is lower (corporate boards of directors), and in some it's higher (public administration). The common factor is that all of these jobs require long apprenticeships, long hours and hard work over many years. It's not that women aren't up to it. They just have other preferences. FEMALE CAREERIST MYTH EXPOLDED Catherine Hakim, a senior research fellow at the London School of Economics, has been studying gender and work trends for decades. “The most misleading feminist myth is that women are united in their goals and priorities,” she wrote in the journal Public Policy Review.  “The myth that all or most women would be just as careerist as men, if only they were given the opportunity, has been exploded.” Women's employment, she explains, is polarized among three sharply different groups.      -  The first group is the two-career family, characterized by equal jobs and equal sharing.       -  In the second group, by far the largest, the man is the main breadwinner and the woman is the secondary earner, with primary responsibility for the home.       - In the third group, the husband works and the wife stays home. This pattern is the same throughout the developed world. “The majority of dual-income couples are not dual-career couples,” says Dr. Hakim. She figures that dual-income couples outnumber dual-career couples by at least two to one. The research flatly contradicts the prevailing notion that part-time jobs (which are mostly held by women) are a bad thing. The truth is that part-time work suits many women's family needs. It debunks the so-called wage gap between the sexes, which results from different work choices, not discrimination. Research also explodes the myth of the “second shift.” When the total time that people spend on paid and unpaid work is added up, men and women come out roughly equal. (I know it's hard to believe. The results would probably be different if the research measured time spent worrying.) When women enter a male profession en masse, they don't become more like men. It's the profession that changes. Take medicine, where gruelling hours have always been the norm. At first, it was simply assumed that women (who now form the majority in medical schools) would practise just like men. They don't. They scale back their hours when they have families, which means we need to train a lot more doctors than we thought we did. EMPLOYMENT EQUITY LAWS FOR WOMEN BACKFIRES Employment equity laws and family-friendly policies have been essential in breaking down employment barriers to women. But social engineering can only go so far. It can even backfire. Consider Sweden, which is so enlightened that fathers must take mandatory paternity leave whether they want to or not. What is the result? The vast majority of parental leave is still taken by women, who prefer not to share it with the men. Most men use their leave as paid vacation, and women still do most of the childrearing. The sexes are sharply segregated by occupation, with most men working in the private sector and most women in the public sector. The pay gap between men and women is much higher than it is in the United States. Dr. Hakim concludes that if it's equality in the workplace you want, look at countries with greater economic competition. JOB FLEXIBILITY AND WORK-LIFE BALANCE NO HELP FOR WOMEN TO BREAK THE GLASS CEILING Job flexibility and work-life balance are undeniably good things. But they don't help women get to the top. Working like hell for years and years gets you to the top. It's puzzling that so many women's advocates seem to think that one thing leads to the other, or that more women will be inclined to work more hours if we make it easier. I don't know how many women “should” be in top jobs, but it's possible that there are about as many there as want to be there. Maybe our granddaughters will make different choices. In the meantime, maybe we should be congratulating ourselves for our success. ...........Share with friends.......... WHAT HAS BEEN AND IS FEMINISM IN 19TH CENTURY TO DATE...... Feminism is a political discourse aimed at equal rights and legal protection for women. It involves various movements, political and sociological theories, and philosophies, all concerned with issues of gender difference; that advocate equality for women; and that campaign for women's rights and interests. According to Maggie Humm and Rebecca Walker, the history of feminism can be divided into three waves. The first wave was in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the second was in the 1960s and 1970s, and the third extends from the 1990s to the present. Feminist theory emerged from these feminist movements. It is manifest in a variety of disciplines such as feminist geography, feminist history and feminist literary criticism. Feminism has altered predominant perspectives in a wide range of areas within Western society, ranging from culture to law. Feminist activists have campaigned for women's legal rights (rights of contract, property rights, voting rights); for women's right to bodily integrity and autonomy, for abortion rights, and for reproductive rights (including access to contraception and quality prenatal care); for protection of women and girls from domestic violence, sexual harassment and rape; for workplace rights, including maternity leave and equal pay; against misogyny; and against other forms of discrimination. Feminism has thus far failed to add equal rights for women to the United States Consitution. During much of its history, most feminist movements and theories had leaders who were predominantly middle-class white women from Western Europe and North America. However, at least since Sojourner Truth's 1851 speech to American feminists, women of other races have proposed alternative feminisms. This trend accelerated in the 1960s with the Civil Rights movement in the United States and the collapse of European colonialism in Africa, the Caribbean, parts of Latin America and Southeast Asia. Since that time, women in former European colonies and the Third World have proposed "Post-colonial" and "Third World" feminisms. Some Postcolonial Feminists, such as Chandra Talpade Mohanty, are critical of Western feminism for being ethnocentric.Black feminists, such as Angela Davis and Alice Walker, share this view....... .........AND NOW IF YOU WISH TO ENLIGHTEN YOURSELF WITH THE COMPLETE OVERVIEW OF  THE HISTORY OF FEMINISM PLEASE CLICK HERE...

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