Re: Men are 'too frightened to give women the compliments they need

On May 22, 10:37 pm, John Larkin
<jjlar...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 22 May 2007 20:20:53 -0700, pandora <pand...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 20 May 2007 11:34:27 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

On Sun, 20 May 2007 11:13:24 -0700, Rich <some...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

John Larkin wrote:

[...]

I know a number of
women who make more money than their mates, purely on their own merit.

Today, thanks to Affirmative Discrimination, being female is merit all by
itself. You say Civil Rights were needed, I say they are needed right
now.

I don't see employers hiring women just because some law makes them do it.
My company certainly doesn't. We hire people that we think will earn us
more money than we have to pay them, and we get rid of them if it doesn't
turn out that way. That, currently, works out to just about 50% female.

The best employees, in terms of dependability, care to do the job right,
and company loyalty, are usually older women. The best design engineers
are usually males in their early 30's. But exceptions are always welcome,
because nobody can afford to turn away talent in any form.

My wife is a speech pathologist, a profession that is literally 99%
female, for some odd reason. I'm a circuit designer, which job is about
99% male. So far, I have met one male speech pathologist and zero female
electronic circuit designers. Interesting.

My daughter is a sysadmin for a rather large university.

There are lots of women systems people and programmers, some of them
famous. But when it comes to "hard" electronic design, they get mighty
scarce. I know one woman who is a brilliant PhD in physical chemistry
which, I've been told, is the hardest thing you can study for a PhD.
Anyway, she got pregnant and didn't want to work around
superconductive magnets (this was NMR research) so wandered the halls
looking for something else to do. She saw some guys designing logic
chips and decided to do that, took a course, and now she's a systems
designer. But we purists don't consider that to be true electronic
design, because she works mostly in VHDL, which is an electronic
design *language*. I work in schematics, which is a
visual/spatial/graphical way of expressing electronic circuits.

She is convinced that it would be impossible for me to do, in
schematics, the level of stuff she's doing in a hardware design
language. She's wrong, of course.

John- Hide quoted text -

So would men prefer a woman who can earn a good income to
help out with the bills or would men prefer woman to just stay
home and take care of the house?

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