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...health care. As a result, killer diseases like malaria and tuberculosis run rampant, and roughly half a million people are infected with HIV. Nearly one-third of children under five years of age are malnourished; of those who are healthy, some rural youngsters are forced to toil as child labor. The urban middle class doesn't fare too much better. Although Burma's main export is natural gas, most Rangoon residents can only rely on a few hours of electricity...
When men take on nontraditional roles in the home and family, it also makes a difference to the marriage. Coltrane of UC Riverside and John Gottman at the University of Washington found in separate studies that when men contribute to domestic labor (which is part and parcel of parenting), women interpret it as a sign of caring, experience less stress and are more likely to find themselves in the mood for sex. This is not to say that more involved fathering has erased marital tensions or that it hasn't introduced new ones. Dads admit they get fussed over...
...more important than their relationship with their spouse. Just as interesting, they rank their job dead last. That most masculine of traits--the ability to go out into the world and bring home a buck--is receding in importance for the men of Generation X. Men's rates of labor-force participation have dropped from just above 90% in 1970 to just above 80% in 2005. Almost a third of young fathers (32%) say they dedicate more time to their children, while 28% say they devote more time to their jobs...
...Peace Corps director Sargent Shriver and founding member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, waged an uphill battle for women's equality. In Washington, where members of Congress joked about sex discrimination and the eeoc ignored it, the ex-Air Force engineer insisted women should be hired for hard labor posts and mothers were "the most stable workers in the labor market." Graham later helped found the National Organization for Women...
...editorial published in the Los Angeles Times on Oct. 1, Robert B. Reich, former Secretary of Labor under President Clinton and a former professor at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), wrote that donations to institutions that “serve the rich” should only be 50% tax-deductible, while contributions directed to charities for the poor be fully deductible...