Comments Dori's post Wk 3

I agree with your comments.  Discrimination problems towards women are exposed in all fields. Not only it is expected for men or women to perform equally but once having a family subject comes to reality in someone’s life, changes the perspective of a lot of views towards working women.  In some cases it is a fear that women have once they get pregnant to share the news with coworkers.  Most women wait a while until they are far ahead in their pregnancies.  Insecurities are caused by feelings of being replace with someone who has no family commitments.  Not only this is the case in women but in men too.  Some men are extremely committed to spend time with their families and they are also discriminated.  As Woods describes in her book per every dollar that a men makes a women gets 75 cents, having this differences still in this times make women catching up harder in every field.  My sister is doing a PHD in Biology and I hope she doesn’t have to experience this pay discrimination.  Happy to report that in her field there are a lot of young women but the percentage of them who will finish, get married and have kids is yet to be seen.   However most of the Program directors are men so it gives this generation an unbalance start.  I have this other couple who are both scientist and have children ages 2 and 4. It is a strugle for them to balance family, work etc. Right now they feel eventually one of them have to quit to stay with the children.  I’m hoping it will be him because it will make the standards a little different. Unless he is making more money than her and then the answer is set.  Men will always gain control of their lives due to better pay, society family standards. However, I’m hopeful because of classes like this that educate so many.