Letters to the Editor
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Yeah, women do great until they want to be mothers
I've worked in preschools and agree with posters that being "good" in a classroom is generally easier for little girls (all due credit to individual differences, of course). But isn't it possible, given the numbers, that there's a "boy crisis" in school and a "family crisis that disproportionately affects women's careers" in the workplace? Someone upthread commented that the wage gap is based on lifetime numbers, not job-to-job inequality. So what? I think it's a problem--for everyone, not just women--that women lose out on their careers because of a lack of supportive infrastructure and a sharply divided cultural landscape that ends up punishing motherhood. Keep in mind that many women just don't have the financial choice to stay at home. So if we expand the time frame a little bit, it looks like our boys are doing just fine.