ng else. Because of the juggling act of home and family life, many women occupy part time jobs. In fact over 70 percent of the part-time labor force consists of women (MacIvor; 1996; p108). What this all means is that even in our "enlightened" modern era a woman has to work twice as hard as a man to achieve the same ends and heaven forbid that she be married or have children. The inclusion of children into that equation makes it near to impossible to be considered a man's equal.Men and women are different and they always will be, but it does not mean that women are not equally as important to a working society. It is only now that this realization of differences is being taken into account. Society is beginning to see that there are certain factors in a woman's life that would prevent her from being a man's mirror image. The top item on that list of factors is family and children. The new laws surrounding maternity and parental leave provide evidence that society is truly beginning to recognize both the equalities and the differences between men and women and is forming law and social policy to reflect that....
