positive woman

In Phyllis Schlafly's The Power of the Positive Woman, she makes many good points to the flaws in the liberation movements ideals. I agree with a lot of what she says, but I also thinks she does take her arguments for the stay at home woman to a bit of an extreme. There are two points which I whole heartedly agree with her on. She begins her essay stating the differences between men and women. She talks about how men are naturally, due to evolution, physically stonger, more logical, and more analytical while women are emotional, practical, and stable. For these reasons, there are cirtain places for which men are better suited and cirtain places for which wimen are better suited. However, I disagree with Schlafly when it comes to the point that these characteristics make women better suited for raising children and men better for going out into the workplace. This may have been so when the workplace was a forest and working involved throwing a spear, but today, there is no natural limitation on either sex that can stop them from going out into the world and making money. If a woman wants to go out into the workplace while her husband stays home, then no government or social standing should stop her. Even if both parents want to go out into the workplace, this should be allowed, as long as their children recieve proper care (being in a childrens center for ten hours every day is not proper care).

I also wholeheartedly agree with Schlafly when it comes to the point that the womens liberation movenent is taking its cause too far. To expect that there should never be seperation between sexes when they are so fundementally different. There are some things that boys have an easier time sharing with other boys and the same goes for girls. Also, the idea that women deserve prefirencial treatement because they were "discriminated against" for hundreds of years is rediculous. First of all it undermines the entire idea of complete equality and no separation. and secondly, discrimination is not discrimination when the women are perfectly content with it. It is only in the modern day that women have wanted the same treatement as men in all aspects of life. Women were never discriminated against, if it is more dificult for a woman to get a job in a factory, it is becuase she lacks the physical strenth to complete the task, it isnt discrimination, it is logic. I am not saying, as Shlafly is, that women should designate themselves to the household, i'm just saying that there should be no compensation becuase no wrongs were ever commited.