If the older male managers are such good mentors to the male workers while don't people consider them for mentoring the younger women ?

Why does it always have to break along gender lines ? I know thats a bit of a redundant question on Broadsheet which is all about dividing people by gender but I do get awful tired of it.

There's no troll like a "all comments not obsessively pro Israel is anti-semetic" troll.

Except maybe a gender troll on Broadsheet.

Yes, I'll definitely check the book out as well.

Nice one No Name Given:

whip out the Islamic ritual beheading knife?

On a par with jews use baby blood

Cosmic Mojo:

As to the whole women-cat-fight theme, it's a myth men love to brainwash us with: that women can't trust other women. They do it to keep us fighting among ourselves so we don't have time to question them.

Damn ! Another security leak !

Now excuse me, I have a meeting of the patriarchy to attend, tonight we're working on how to cut womens wages by 50%

RB is over emphasising the degree to which the WP article postulates aggressive women are emasculating men, but neverless the whole idea of it as a trend is ridiculous.

Also from the article:

Fifteen years ago, none of his patients complained about having problems in bed. Now, he hears about them from as many as a quarter of them

Or perhaps they are less inhibited about reporting problems, seems much more likely to me.

Bah - there are *so* many things this could be attributed to before considering women are turning men off.

the cans are "cute, pink, emblazoned with vapid teenisms like 'petulant' and 'reactionary,' come with extendo-straws so you don’t muss your lipstick...

Sure, marketing and advertising tend to reinforce clunky gender stereotypes.

Broadsheet is dissing *pink * *cheeky* sterotypes ! we're well into self-parody here.

The sad thing is Broadsheet appears to be completely unaware of it.

I suggest you recheck Broadsheets introduction:

http://salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2005/10/24/broadsheet/index.html

Introducing Salon's cheeky new women's blog

that paid attention to the newsworthy triumphs and travails of what we used to call the fairer sex.

The issues we'll tackle are limitless ... Katie Holmes' pregnancy" (and Brad pitt, Tom Cruise, etc ...)

Hildy Johnson, ferociously pounding out copy on deadline in "His Girl Friday," her tailored suit wrinkle-free and sexy

And of course the pink motif, the smirking middle class impeccably coiffed logo with her faux cigarette holder, the celebrity gossip.

But that's not appealing to banal female stereotypes is it ?

As opposed to cranky, masculine self-parody blackpaw?

I presume you're referring to my criticism of Broadsheets faux feminism and its general offensiveness to many people (female and male).

I'm male, but my other main handle in use off salon is my real first name (Lindsay). Since in America its commonly a womens name I'm often assumed to be a women. When I correct people its usually a surprise, but not a big issue.

When harrased online its always been over my opinions, not my gender - except for on Broadsheet. But then Broadsheet is the only forum I frequent where your gender is the most important thing about you.

And I never bother with chatrooms - ick.

on the assumption that men will often answer questions from "girls" that they wouldn't bother answering if the poster was a guy. I don't know if that's true

I doubt it - on the programming forums/lists where I'm clearly a guy, I've never not had a answer to a technical question. I think on those forums people are just helpful to people.

Petersen doesn't have the subtlety to pull that off

Huh, Stephanie should watch Petersen's "Das Boot", probably the best submarine movie ever made - she'd reconsider his subtlety and talent then.

Has any of those surved moms aquired all the qualifications involved ? have they spent 8 years at med school ? got a MBA ? worked their way up the ranks in a corporation ? etc.

And doing equivalent work to a psychologist ? jeeze, its chronic pandering to people who want feel good empowerment fairy stories.

Would any of these women be paying a housekeeper/child minder these rates ? I doubt it, they'd get cheap immigrant labour to do it.

Hell, I'm the one that does most of the domestic work round here, and all of the dependant care and I think thats just a joke. "Studies" (I use the term very loosely ) like this just encourage the view of femminism as a joke.

One thing is for sure - wannabe femminists will be quoting this study for years to come, and we'll all be called sexist pigs for saying its crap.

Like Atiya said, many families share these chores much more equally these days and we are seeing more stay at home dads as well, but the media and self-appointed femminist spokes women fail to recognise this.

Look at the battle for maternity leave. Why not call it parental leave and fight for it equally for everyone ? You'd get a lot more men on board plus encouraging men to be at home for childcare, win-win.

Love the way any critque of femminism or even difference of opinions are characterised as "dissing" (or attacking).

Its clear that I support femminisim, just that I find studies like this and other things (such as Broadsheet) harmful to feminisnm and people in general. That does not mean I'm dissing femminism or any less of a femminist than yourself.

And snarking about my spelling on a online forum with no spell checker - petty and contributes nothing to the discussion apart from what it says about you.

And this:

Ladies, if managing your own household makes you a CEO, and caring for your own children makes you a "childcare provider" then what does having sex with your own husband make you?

ROTFL ! But also a rather droll highlight of the whole idea of assessing every activity as an economic earner.