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...Baird Professor of Science Edward O. Wilson moderated a discussion on biodiversity, during which scientists told brief stories and showed slides of their research sites...
...Baird's futile invocation of motherhood as her defense for hiring undocumented workers underscores that motherhood cannot excuse transgressions. We must be careful about the pitfalls involved in idealizing motherhood and elevating it to any kind of special status...
Last week the air was thick with confessions from such workers. "Do you have a Zoe Baird problem?" they asked one another. "Sure," said many, who had never thought to discuss the matter before. Fortunately, few of the confessors were inclined to seek a post with the Clinton Administration...
They had better not. After the President's political advisers determined that Americans are too dumb to understand the difference between Zoe Baird, who knowingly violated the law by employing two illegal aliens and paying them off the books, and Kimba Wood, who legally employed an alien and filed all the required taxes, they discovered that -- oops! -- they had inadvertently created a new hiring policy. Worse, its effect looked suspiciously like sex discrimination. So, compounding the error, the Administration decided to formalize its accidental policy and apply it to men as well as women. Henceforth, the Administration announced, all candidates...
...instituting the Zoe Baird standard, Clinton has tilted the pool of potential appointees away from working parents toward the single, the childless, those with grown kids and even, God forbid, the millionaire types with stay-at-home wives who have dominated government for eons. (Sure, some of these folks could be vulnerable because they've employed maids and gardeners without paying taxes. But, provided such workers are not illegal aliens, an employer can argue that they are "independent contractors" responsible for their own paperwork.) The Cabinet is already shaping up to reflect this bias, at least where women are concerned...