Jensen's view on women: how did it come to this?

From Australia- (Letters)

Exquisite timing. On the morning after the announcement of Professor Suzanne Cory as the winner of the 2012 Eureka Leadership in Science award, Peter Jensen attempts to defend the indefensible (''Men and women are different, and so should be their marriage vow'', August 29).

In the mid-1960s, Professor Cory ran headlong into the patriarchal culture of that august institution, Cambridge University, which at the time offered scholarships almost exclusively to men. That she prevailed and forged a singularly successful career in science is testament to steely determination as well as ability. Because, for women of that era, ability was never enough.

But now, Dr Jensen considers it appropriate to reintroduce the notion of female submission in marriage, apparently because men and women are different and marriage is important. How these are linked is beyond me, as well as my teenage daughters. Bright, widely read and engaged with the world, they smile indulgently at their father and ask how my generation could let it come to this. How did we?

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