Thursday, August 31, 2006
EMERGENCY ALERT!! Too few female court clerks!!
These days the New York Times is acting more and more like an operational arm of NOW or being co-opted by Ms. Magazine than a major newspaper. They now seem to be in the business of counting male/female ratios of every nooks and corners of society and whenever the ratio of women fell to the point that they cannot accept, issue a early warning or a wake up call to the world (or to the ideologue sisters among its readers) that something needs to be done… Gender ratio of “clerks”? even though they serve Supreme Court justices, they don’t deliver judgement, if association with or proximity to the important office such as Supreme Court is the issue, how about gender ratio of maintenance worker at the Supreme Court building? Oops, men dominate again? Sorry!
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You're right. Any article that considers the gender ratio in any particular field lacks balance unless it considers the gender ratio in every other field. (I am being sarcastic obviously.)
It's tough for me to view the New York Times as an entity having any particular feminist agenda.
I am certainly no fan or defender of their point of view on gender issues.
However, raising questions about the number of supreme court clerks doesn't mean that there are no concerns about the gender equality in other less exalted fields. Feminists have a number of organizations in the U.S. dedicated to assisting women to break into the trades. The film "North Country" was all about a woman's fight to be free of harassment in her job as a miner-- hardly a prestigious or particularly pleasant job, albeit a well-paying job compared to many of the options more welcoming to women.
By the way, I have no reason to assume that the maintenance staff at the Supreme Court is male-dominated. While I haven't reasearched the data and the statistics as to building maintenance staffs, I can tell you that the law firms where I have worked have had a 50-50 ratio of male-female maintenance employees.
So typical of men to leap to unsupported conclusions!
So typical of women to leap to conclusions based on limited personal experience/anecdotes/feeling!
Ha ha, just joking (or not). By the way, when was the last time the New York Times did some report on disproportionately high number of suicide by men compared to women, or workplace injuries or deaths, short life expetancy... No you will never see. Instead you will see an article on 2-tier system of lactation in workplace! Because obviously for them, some women not having enough time or space for lactation is much bigger problem than some "men" committing suicide, or killed in workplace, etc. After all for them, as some of your ideological sisters said, "men" are just "potential rapists", huh?
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