Realwomen of BC - Archives - December2003

THE REAL NEWS The R.E.A.L WOMEN of BC Newsletter December 2003, BOX 39068, Point Grey RPO, Vancouver, BC V6R 4P1, Tel/Fax: 604- 463-1611, website: http://www.realwomen.bc.ca, e-mail: lgeschke@almatree.net Back to contents
Career Trends The New York Times Magazine cover story of Oct 26, 2003 features an article by Lisa Belkin entitled "Why Don''t More Women Get to the Top? They ChooseNot To". Belkin, surveying many young mothers, made discoveries that she feels would have startled 60s feminists and she cites reasons the movement to advance women in paid careers has possibly peaked. -50% of Yale''s 2003 undergraduate class was female -Berkeley Law School''s 2003 class is 63% women -Harvard''s Law School 2003 class is 46% women -50% of undergraduate business majors are women However she then notes that women tend to take time away from the paid career to have children Of Stanford''s class of 1981, 57% of mothers spent at least a year at home with infant children in the first ten years after graduation. 25% stayed home 3 or more years. Women from Harvard Business School classes of 1981, 1985 and 1991 in 2003 were surveyed to find that only 38% of them in 2003 have full-time paid employment According to the latest US census, the number of children being cared for by moms at home has gone up nearly 13% in less than a decade -While in 1998 59% of new mothers went back to paid work , in 2003 that number has dropped to 55 % in 2003. BC Parents and Teachers for Life has an excellent video available which was filmed in part here in BC, but produced by Mission America in the US. The video is called "The Truth About Homosexuality" and it exposes the agenda being perpetrated in our public education system. Contact www.bcptl.org or Box 45531, Sunnyside Post Office, 2397 King George Hwy, Surrey, BC V4A 9N3 Cost $12.00 plus taxes and shipping! In Canada, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation has recommended to the federal tax committee that its upcoming budget for spring 2004 should increase the basic personal exemption from its present level of under $7,000, not only up to the proposed $8,000 but to $15,000 by 2008. It suggests that this increase, along with a corresponding increase in the spousal exemption, would remove 2.1 million Canadians from tax rolls. REAL Women of BC has been lobbying for change like this for years!

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