Reply #160: They oppose it because

[SheilaT]

they fundamentally misunderstand what it's all about. They honestly (from what I can tell) think that they themselves don't need AA, and so of course no one else does.

Until half of all members of Congress are women, until half of all CEOs are women, until half of all the tenured professors at Harvard are women, well, you get my drift.

Younger women, those who entered the workforce after about 1974 (just as a rough guess) have no idea what it was like even a few years earlier. Companies could legally refuse to hire or promote women on the basis they might get pregnant. And if you did get pregnant you could be summarily fired.

The real sad thing, in my opinion, is that all the women now in the work force somehow have not served to humanize the workplace, but instead all workers have to behave as if they have a wife at home and can work endless overtime at the will of the company. It's not progress.