Gender Bias

All,
Sorry for the really late notice. No excuses for my tardiness, just my humble apologies. Thus, if due to my tardiness, this post does not resonate with you, my regrets in advance.

Since we left off last week talking about Gender Bias as the subject to discuss this week, I found a few links (from the Austin Thu Open mike - thanks! - and elsewhere) which I have listed below

I'd like the discussion to be around gender equality. Are men and women really equal? Can men and women really do what the other can do? If not, are the different skill sets brought to society by men and women thus render the two sexes equal? If they are equal, why the historical bias? Is it only due to Man's strength superiority? If so, is might right? Or, to ask the same question differently, should might be right in a world of survival of the fittest?

Some links are below:

If Men Could Menstruate - by Gloria Steinem
http://www.haverford.edu/psych/ddavis/p109g/steinem.menstruate.html

This was the US point of view in the 50s!
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQBtcmO_RD9vyD1LGHHWh0qin5aZ7EanNrhGBJ2V8oPrHdCw9kVaPNUtotx1ZSE0aiJ5DfTFUoex48UTQljU1rNi6mdOeovlnVKxZRZ1OLaA_bIhwHkLltkihPDCzM4r_QZsdwci0X7RM/s1600-h/gwguide.jpg

"The zeitgeist in which Hillary floundered and “Sex” is now flourishing."; "Striving While Female – if it goes too far and looks too real — is still held to be a crime."
http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/05/woman-in-charge-women-who-charge/index.html?ref=opinion
I would also encourage you to read the comments by others on the article above.

Another indian article - Seven Markers for Gender equality
http://www.indiatogether.org/2003/feb/wom-markers.htm


more links coming...