DEAR ABBY: I hope you don't mind my response to the reader who signed herself "Happy to Be Ron's Girl." She's the young woman who enjoys meeting her boyfriend's needs through homemaking.
Abby, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that, per se. What I object to is that she thinks she's wearing the crown of true womanhood because she likes scrubbing toilets, doing laundry and ironing shirts.
I work at a local high school, teaching gender equality to the girls there. I tell them they need to get in touch with their skills and find jobs that fulfill them. Too often, girls do what society tells them they SHOULD do. In the "happy days" of the '50s, there were many unhappy and unfulfilled women staying home with the vacuum cleaner because they felt they had no other choice.
A woman's place is where she WANTS to be -- at home or on the job. That is what "contemporary feminism" is all about. -- JUNE KALLESTAD, GENDER EQUITY COORDINATOR, CLOQUET SENIOR HIGH, CLOQUET, MINN.
DEAR JUNE: That's sensible, and I'm in complete agreement. And by the way, you are right where YOU belong -- advising young women about how to build the brightest future they can for themselves. Bravo!