This is one of my favourite topics. As a male nurse I have effectively spent most of my working life in a predominantly female orientated profession. I admired the professionalism and dedication of the sisters and matrons who ran the hospitals for little or no money. Over the years I have argued with my own mates who were mainly in the building trade that women deserve to be treated as equals both in respect and pay. Secretively, I actually meant that in many ways they are superior, but I was already unpopular given my arguments for equality. unfortunately, what I observed over the years is women turning their backs on their own children to follow their own agenda. Now I know what I am stating is going to sound unfair, but I truly believe that if a woman chooses to become a mother ,then that is in itself a profession and especially in the early years. I have witnessed women turn their backs on their own femininity and try to behave more like men. Even worse, they behave like those men who make other men look bad. They think cursing, getting drunk and fighting coming out of bars, terrorizing people by forming gangs and vandalizing peoples homes and properties, makes them more equal to men. I know female colleagues who left nursing to have children and raised them until they old enough to at least attend nursery school. Women are physically designed to carry the child and give birth to the child and to feed the child. I was also taught as a student nurse that we could never replace the love that a child has for its mother. I truly believe that women are psychologically geared better to raise a child in infancy. As a nurse I could argue that if my wife and I had divorsed, that I would be a better parent because I have qualifications in nursing and child care and child psychology . But that would have been a nonsense to me as I know a child needs their mother in the early years. Therefore I wouldn't even have contemplated such a move. I was on a bus recently and I got up to offer my seat to a pregnant girl. I said, "here love, sit yourself down." she immediately snapped at me saying," first of all I'm not your love,and secondly don't be so condescending". I was really embarrassed and other older women on the bus gave her dirty looks and tutted at her behavior. This sort of in your face machismo is not something I would admire in any man. So, I think women have lost their way in their strides for equality. Another point is that there has been a marked rise in homosexuality and single parent families. A case came up locally were two young girls deliberately got pregnant in order to get points for a housing trust placement and openly admitted that they were better off on welfare. They even admitted that none of the fathers even knew that they were fathers. I know this has happened before the march of womens rights, but the difference is that they have no qualms about advertising the fact. Anyway, there ive said my piece. :)
