Edited by author 04-05-2002 11:52 PM
 I feel kind of like the token guy as far as the posts go this week because I am the only one to post so far, but I suppose that I shall simply be forced to suffer the slings and arrows of the rest of the class without too much hesitation.

 I do believe that the author is biased in her presentation of material and reference, but that is to be expected since very few people can argue a point about which they feel passion without coloring it one way or the other. It does not affect the overall work so long as the reader remembers to think for themselves based on available information and not just follow any one author or resource blindly if it is possible to do otherwise.

 As far as women’s roles in society go, there is a great deal of variation even in this country, let alone in others. Even in this area, they run the gamut from women being respected in the job and scholastic fields to some of them, whether it is by their family, faith, or other source, being expected to stay at home to care for the children. There is never really going to be any one system which will ever become the “norm” but that is also to be expected, because we, as people, exhibit great differences from individual to individual which is a given from the very definition of the word. Life is a very diverse thing, and it warrants consideration that culture is simply a way of dealing with the life which is thrust upon us in a manner which makes some sort of sense at the time, so cultures are going to tend to be just as diverse as life itself.

 On a side note, in response to the comment of life after children being poopy diapers, laundry, cooking, cleaning, and ironing, life in the world is generally all of those things, with the exception of the poopy diapers, in addition to what we do as a living and whatever social life we manage to eek out even without children. I know several couples who do not send their children to day care and still manage to work and maintain a reasonable household. It is possible, it just takes more work, but then anything any of us tries to do takes work...