This past week there were two blogs Women in the Work Place Has Degraded America's Moral Fiber and Yes, Feminization of America Has Made Us Weaker.
In my mind they lead to two questions.The first is have women really destroyed the moral fiber of this country by entering the workplace? The second, who's in charge, you or the kids?

There are different thoughts on this. Some women say, no, we haven't done anything to destroy the moral fiber. In fact we need to go out and work to feed our children because the men just aren't doing it anymore. This is true.I am the product of a single parent home. My mother and the rest of us would die from starvation if neither she nor I had jobs, because the sole man in the house, my grandfather is unemployed and when he was employed he did not make as much as my mother.
When the feminist movement started really what was the intent? What was the Saratoga convention for? What was the movement for in the sixties?
When America was new the only respectable job a woman could hold was teacher or maid.If she was unmarried she could expect to teach or clean. Nobody wanted to hear what a married woman would teach their children. For women who hadn't been allowed to pursue education beyond some writing and reading..they could clean.
They couldn't vote in elections. This was unfair. The great social events of the past took place in the church and women cooked and cleaned and prepared for that event, she could voice an opinion in the town hall, but she couldn't vote? What about the things that are needed for family and life that men don't consider? She needed the right to vote.
There were burdens put on her.If her husband died, how would she survive with her children? If she got sick what would happen?
The feminist movement had its start here. Women wanted further education, so as to be able to hold down jobs to provide for themselves when they found themself parentless and without a husband. Women needed laws to be changed.The feminist movement was born.
Women wanted to be treated as equals and they really got their chance in WW I and WW II because when the men were away the women had to go out and work to provide and pay the bills. They had to be wife and mother and father.
When the men came back they were shuttled off to the kitchen..that's not right or fear, but the men wouldn't hear and then out of this came the women's movement of the sixties.
We needed to get out of the kitchens and into the schools. The suffragettes of the twenties had brought us aways with the right to vote, but now came the time to take control over our own bodies. We were having the children, and working in the homes and in some jobs. What right did a man have to exert control over our bodies? Did he know what happened during childbirth? Did he know the stresses bourne by a woman...they filled the streets and showed unity..we deserved equal pay for equal work and promotions. It was glorious.
However along the way something happened. Women were in charge of their bodies but they mistook freedom to take care of their health with the giving of their bodies. But there is a time and a place for that. Women started giving their bodies to any and anyone in the name of liberty and not realizing how special it is to be with someone you love and care for.
The movement halted and slowed down and somewhere came to a near halt. Men didn't feel they had to do much. Not that they don't do plenty. Feminism hasn't crippled the home. Its the other movement that sprung out of it that did it...the Sexual Liberation movement that didn't forsee the overspill of women left to raise a child on her own and still having to go out to make ends meet..that's the movement that weakened the moral fiber of the nation.