It may seem impolite when I say it, but it's a plain fact that most women only marry men who want to earn money and that women - at the same time - have the nerve to say that no man wants to stay at home anyway. Who should be held responsible for this situation: employer or woman?" (to be found in the last but one chapter, the one about Women's Lib) Quote: "The 'woman with a family' - the woman who supports a healthy man and his children all her life - is practically unknown in the professional world. Vilar is able to explain why discrimination against women in the professional world is women's own fault: the pay cheque of a man who is prepared to support his wife for years is more valuable and necessary than the pay cheque of a woman who won't support a man and who insists on a money-earning husband. But she makes clear that she *does* want women to be emancipated - as long as they are willing to accept responsibilities the way men do. Esther Vilar is one of the few women who dare to criticize their own sex and the way feminism is going. This is one of the most enlightening books I've ever read.
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