<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a6d1f2b7-05f3-4e88-8cad-b5ab59b2b970/E1262DB9-A3D5-4686-91AD-BBDE82D20909/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/gender.html" href="http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/gender.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.trinity.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/gender.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.trinity.edu/img/68F28E90-EE97-4FBB-A62B-B71C5D84D984" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/gender.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.trinity.edu/img/03E4531E-2793-487C-82DA-B36F407398EE" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/gender.html">Women have always had lower status than men, but the extent of the gap between the sexes varies across cultures and time (some arguing that it is inversely related to social evolution). In 1980, the United Nations summed up the burden of this inequality: Women, who comprise half the world's population, do two thirds of the world's work, earn one tenth of the world's income and own one hundredth of the world's property. In <I>Leviticus</I>, God told Moses that a man is worth 50 sheikels and a woman worth 30--<A href="http://www.dol.gov/dol/wb/public/wb_pubs/wagegap2.htm">approximately the contemporary salary differentials of the sexes in the United States</A>.  (Actually, according to one <A href="http://stats.bls.gov/pdf/cpswom99.pdf">"Current Population Survey"</A> of the US Census Bureau, American women in 1999 earned approximately 77% of what men made, in 2000, according to the Department of Labor, <A href="http://www.bls.gov/pdf/cpswom2000.pdf">their median weekly earnings were 76% of the male median</A>.)  What might be the socio-cultural implications if men were to also be the child bearers?  </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E1262DB9-A3D5-4686-91AD-BBDE82D20909/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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