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- From: gcf@panix.com (Gordon Fitch)
- Newsgroups: alt.abortion.inequity,soc.men,soc.women,talk.abortion,alt.feminism
- Subject: Re: Reproductive Technologies... (was: Re: Father Notification...)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.210817.10907@panix.com>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 21:08:17 GMT
- References: <C05KMD.34L@ddsw1.mcs.com> <1993Jan1.161916.5572@panix.com> <C08KKH.I1o@ddsw1.mcs.com>
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- | >karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger) writes:
- | >| ...
- | >| I propose as the yardstick of equality the total number of minor children
- | >| under the custodial care of each sex in single parent homes. When it
- | >| reaches the level of the population dispersion (49% men / 51% women I
- | >| believe) then we have equality. Until that time men are to be preferred in
- | >| both custody and child support awards.
-
- gcf@panix.com (Gordon Fitch) writes:
- | >In many cases, companies say that they cannot get a sufficient
- | >number of applicants from discriminated groups to balance their
- | >hiring or promotion numbers. In the case of custody, do we know
- | >what the proportion of applicants is? It may be that the draft
- | >rather than the job market will turn out to be appropriate
- | >analogy.
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- kd:
- | Of course, when companies say this they have to prove it by presenting the
- | resumes of qualified applicants for inspection.
-
- I take it this is sarcastic; actually, I don't know what
- goes into a case on discrimination. My impression is that
- the complainants have to show a pattern of discrimination;
- they can only do this by showing that a number of applicants
- of a certain category were available for hiring or promotion
- and were rejected, while a significantly different
- proportion of those outside the category were accepted. So
- resumes might well become an issue.
-
- However, what I was thinking of was this: insisting that
- 49% of custody go to men may run into the question of
- whether 49% of the men _want_ custody. Considering the
- implacable resistance to paying child support shown here
- and elsewhere, I have the idea that a good many men might
- not consider your proposal a boon if the luck of the draw
- smiled upon them. Take care: you may be giving ideas to
- the devious witches on NOW's General Staff for yet
- another plot.
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