Notimportant, it is tragic that people feel that men can only have access to Torah when they work full time (see oomis’s most recent post). What happens when a woman can’t work (e.g. pregnancy complications), or needs to give more time to her family (and I’m talking about all the kids being wonderful and happy, forget about special needs or other circumstances)? Why aren’t we giving our young women permission to become an akeres habayis? Who are you people and what have you done with the traditional image of akeres habayis?
(And no one tell me about the women who helped out in the store until you very carefully read Zalman’s Menorah to see what real men had to deal with too.)
Reminds me of the old Enjoli perfume commercial (you are definitely too young to remember this) – I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan, and never [let him go unappreciated], cause I’m a woman.