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...story on the difficulty German women face in trying to pursue a career and raise a family prompted some readers to share stories of confronting the country's traditional attitudes to gender roles. Other readers felt that the value of spending time with children while they are young should not be discounted I'm 35 and a woman scientist. Your article "The German Question," about the struggle for gender equality and the difficulties workingwomen face underlined issues that are very much my everyday reality [Jan. 30]. After learning about the ways other societies function, I believe there is still much...
...means a workingwoman has given up on the feminist cause. Feminism was meant not to turn women into men but to give women the freedom to choose to work inside or outside the home. Having lived in Germany for seven years, I appreciate that it is truly difficult for German women to combine career and children, yet the endless comparison of earth mother vs. career mother is pointless and divisive. It is important to realize that nowadays educated, experienced women like me are not necessarily wasting our skills by staying at home; rather we are choosing to use our skills...
Weary of Lawrence H. Summers’s leadership, Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith Ryan is leading the newest charge against the embattled president. The self-described “cheeky” professor kicked back with FM this week, answering (a few more than) 15 questions about the campus-consuming controversy...
...tiring being the Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature? JR: It’s exceedingly tiring. In fact, when I was first given that title, I thought it must be a joke. But the first question I asked was, “Is there any special way to pronounce ‘Weary?’ Is it perhaps pronounced ‘Way-AR-ee?’” I was trying to get out from under that name, but I think the dean at that time proposed me for that position because he knew...
...Fear Eats the Soul,’ there’s more truth in that title than most whole films.” Would hearing a pretentious Production Assistant declaiming these words—a reference to a classic film by German filmmaker Rainer Warner Fassbinder—induce peals of laughter? If you answered yes, then “Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story” is the perfect movie...