Posted on 12/31/2006 2:08:13 AM PST by Aussie Dasher
JOHN Howard believes that young Australian women have entered a post-feminist era where they have "moved on" from the need to measure their lives by success in a career.
Discussing the rise in births triggered in part by the Coalition's baby-bonus scheme, the Prime Minister told The Sunday Telegraph he thought young women had a "greater awareness now of the disadvantage of postponing having children too long''.
Mr Howard said they realised that if child-bearing was left too late, it produced "complications''.
"Fortunately, I think today's younger women are more in the post-feminist period, where they don't sort of measure their independence and freedom by the number of years they remain full-time in the workforce without having children,'' he said.
"I think they've moved on from that sort of demonstration phase.
"I don't mean demonstrations in the streets and so on, but in the sense that they thought: `I'll be letting the sisterhood down if I don't stay in the workforce until I'm a certain age.' I think they're more confident and everything.''
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
I love that guy. I had the pleasure of working in Sydney for about a year in 04 when he was battling it out with that Labour clown Latham. Have to say I was very impressed with Howard.
Not surprising. He is VERY impressive. Coming up for election win number 5 next year!
PM Howard is telling it straight, he kinda reminds me of our Teddy Roosevelt, it's refreshing.
bttt
Australia seems to be the only other country in the 'West', along with the United States, where good conservative thinking still seems to hold sway. Any other countries out there I'm not thinking of, folks?
They may be about to elect another socialist President but their economy was largely designed by graduates of the Chicago School of Economics.
They've completely privatized their Social Security system as well which is something we should emulate as soon as possible.
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Canada's got a minority Conservative gov't that's righted the course (coarse) of "progressive" Liberal policies over the past 15+ years.
Stupid headline. That's NOT what he said.
Cool Guy.
How about Duncan Hunter/John Howard '08
Oh year. Got to be a citizen. Never mind.:~)
Your comment is ignorant at best. If it had been what he said it would have been in quotations. You should know that.
Sorry, hon...I worked in the news biz for 16 years...this is a stupid headline.
This is not an editorial piece. It is a news interview piece.
You don't know what you're talking about.
Austrailia must really be doing something right. Every headline I see from down under is positive. Its amazing what can be accomplished when a true conservative approach is followed.
I, in particular, don't want scaredy-little-men.
Give us a kiss!!!
Only jokimg! Happy New Year!!!
Honestly, I don't think that's a factor in the rise of homosexuality.
Oh give me a break! I don't know any many who is so "afraid" of women that he will turn into a butt ranger. If anything, being a bitch just makes it that much easier for a man to do his business and move on. The truth is that some men have always had these tendencies (to varying degrees). In the past, stigma, religion, and just plain lack of information kept it dormant. Now, its just become a lot more socially acceptable for them to bring it out in the open. I know two guys from college who later became gay--though, at the time, they gave absolutely no indication of being so. Society is has the mistake of outright encouraging this sort of thing.
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