Unequal time for equal crime ITEM A man convicted of murder is twenty times more likely than a woman convicted of murder to receive the death penalty.’ ITEM No woman who has kiled only men has been executed m the United States smce I9S4.2 ITEM Smce the 1976 reinstatement of the death penalty. 120 men […]

An Overview When only one lex wins, both sexes lose. Warren Farrell When a woman committed a crime in the United States in the 1800s, it was her husband who served time 1 Similarly, under Knglish law, when a family went into debt, it was the husband who went to debtor’s prison. When it comes […]

Both conservatives and liberals reinforce the protection of women and the disposability of men. Conservatives justify it — they call it sex roles. Liberals call it sexism if it hurts women, but blame men if it hurts men. For example, male-only clubs hurt women and therefore liberals call it sexism; male-only draft registration hurts men […]

I am often asked why men don’t get as worked up as they might about women — particularly poor women — having to use their bodies as prosti­tutes. Because most men unconsciously experience themselves as prosti­tutes every’ day — the miner, the firefighter, the construaion worker, the logger, the soldier, the meatpacker — these men […]

While on a flight to Houston recently, I met an aerospace worker employed at Boeing My old tendency’ would have been to ask him — maybe debate with him — about the Stealth bomber that Boeing helps produce; but instead 1 asked him about his working conditions. I discovered that he was working with chemicals […]

One of the biggest fallacies of the women’s movement was expecting work to mean power and self-fulfillment Employers wouldn’t have to pay people if they were giving away power and self fulfillment. For those employees able to feel freedom and fulfillment on the job — well, more power to ’em Hut the average man knows […]

Our desire to give special protection to working women who are of childbearing years seems especially understandable. Geneticists are now finding, though, that exposing men of child-creating years to chemical toxins might hurt the children just as much. Why? All the eggs a woman has are present and whole before birth. But to create sperm, […]

ITEM When Children International seeks sponsors for children, seventeen out of eighteen of the children it shows are female.1 The viewer is told, "When you adopt a cMd. she wi write, she will have food, she…" In another ad, poverty itself is defined as "hunger and a little g/г/ growing old too fast." Why this […]

In the preceding chapters, we saw how survival historically depended on a woman choosing a man who would die to protea her. We also saw why choosing male killers to protea us now threatens survival. But what are some of the most important gut-level internal responses we must confront if we are to stop dividing […]

The sexist perception that violence by anyone against only women is anti­woman while violence by a woman against only men is just generic violence creates a political demand for laws that are even more protective of women. For example, when we publicized studies of battered women but ignored a dozen studies pointing to equal numbers […]