Sometimes I Have A Feeling,

One Danger Of A Man Succeeding Is That It Teaches His Wife And Daughter Not To Worry About Success.

As I Looked More Carefully At The Listening Matrix I Saw That During The Past Twenty Years We Had Taken A Magnifying Glass To The First Of These Four Quadrants, The Female Experience Of Powerlessness. I Saw I Was Subconsciously Making A False Assumption: The More Deeply I Understood Women's Experience Of Powerlessness, The More I Assumed Men Had The Power Women Did Not Have. In Fact, What I Was Understanding Was The Female Experience Of Male Power.

When Women And Men Have Approximately Equal Life Expectancies, It Seems To Be Because Women Die Not Only In Childbirth (fewer Than Thought) But About Equal From Diseases; Poor Sanitation And Water; Inadequate Healthcare; And Diseases Of Malnutrition. In Industrialized Societies, Early Deaths Are Caused More By Diseases Triggered By Stress, Which Breaks Down The Immune System. It Is Since Stress Has Become The Key Factor That Men Have Died So Much Sooner Than Women.

In A Sense, In The Area Of Child Care, Children's Relationships With Parents' Working Has Come Full Circle. We Have Gone From The Mom-and-pop Store (or Mom-and-pop Farm), With Its Integration Of Child Care And Work, To Children-at-home And Dad-at-work; To The Mom-plus-daddy Working At Home, With Its Integration Of Childcare And Work Again. From Mom-and-pop Back To Mom-and-pop.

Laws Are Made With Such Attention To Protecting Women That, If A Man's Constitutional Rights Conflict With A Woman's Protection, His Rights Disintegrate Before Her Protection Disintegrates.