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POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: WHAT A LOAD. The always-provocative Linda Hirshman has taken issue with much of the content in our "Mother Load" special report. She responds with a critique that the authors go too easy on husbands and fathers, focusing on reforming the workplace when they should be agitating for a revolution at home. She writes,
Equality always costs someone something -- and usually that someone is the one on top. Sugar-coating by discussing how women and men "want many of the same things" simply allows women to delude themselves into thinking the "same things" will just fall into their laps without the nastiness of standing up for them. If everybody wants them, how hard can it be?Read the whole thing here. And check out the coverage that Hirshman objects to over on the special report homepage.--The Editors
