I don't think it's necessarily about missed opportunity and lack of treatment, though.
Read the whole article in Time
here
Depending on lifestyle, some women are showing declining longevity.
The women who are dying younger are those who have chosen to pursue careers.
basically, women who chose to take advantage of the "benefits" that used to be reserved for men, are, like men, dying off younger of stress related illnesses.
This essentially proves that women have traditionally lived longer because being the stay at home mom is not nearly as stressful or wearing as being a primary earner.
While I have always championed equal treatment for everyone... I do not believe that women and men are the same. Each has evolved to be specifically optimized for different things.
Women, for example, can keep track of far more things at once than men...the kind of skill that would make them gifted diagnosticians...
while men are far better at the kind of singular focus that makes for brilliant engineering.
Male executives are most effective when they have female secretaries whose job it is to keep track of all the projects and make sure the executive has the most pertinent one in front of him at any time.
Whereas female executives seem to operate best with a group of male underlings, each of whom will take one project to focus on exclusively, while the female executive manages the efforts of all of them.
But, just the same... the feminists copped the attitude than men were "denying" women access to some great and wonderful world full of excitement and fun.
In fact, a career is a killer. It is not 'good old boys' it is massively antlered Elk, slamming into each other in a field, trying to determine who gets to mate.
It is relentless competition, fear for your job, ass kissing and politicking, enemies and allies...
And doing it well means letting everything else of value in life slide.
Now that women have more equality... they are beginning to learn that its not all that fun, after all.
And I find that many women end up making other choices than the career, if they have the opportunity.
Even today. Women earn an average of 73 cents to each dollar a man earns, not because they are not treated equally, but because analysis by personnel departments shows that women are that much more likely to interrupt their careers, quit, or refuse promotions that will make more demands on their families.
There is a big difference between Equality, and Equal Treatment.
Demanding the same money for the same work SOUNDS fair... but I don't see female bartenders and waitresses willing to split the difference between their tips and those made by their male colleagues.
( men tip women higher than they do men- and it has nothing to do with service )
When women demanded in a class action suit that dry cleaners charge the same for a woman's blouse as they do for a man's shirt- they are ignoring the proven fact that it costs dry cleaners more to clean women's clothing because women are far more demanding about their clothing. And the result was that dry cleaners simply charged men MORE... not women less... so the average dry cleaning cost for a Couple went UP.
Thanks, gals... great way to make things "equal"... to less money in your pocket.
Women are women and men are men.
Women will always pay less for dining, drinking, and driving over the speed limit.
And, by and large, men are okay with that apparent inequity... its created by our evolved drive to care for you, impress you, pursue you.
I think women could become a little more relaxed about the other minor inequities twixt the sexes, simply by taking the long view and realizing that it all works out in the end, pretty much in their favor.
Sure, women will earn $0.73 to each $1... but most women exercise control over spending $1.25 of the total a couple brings in.
And when I am out in the world, in the middle of the day... what do I see behind the wheel of 4 out of 5 cars.... who's not at a job and has the leisure to be out shopping?
women.
For women in the rest of the world, the Ugliest of ugly Americans are the women who complain about not having it good enough.
