Kammer, Jack

When Jack Kammer was a young boy he loved babies. But he often heard the left-handed "compliment" that paralleled the one heard by girls who were good at sports (or math), namely "You're really good at sports (or math)... for a girl." What Jack heard was "You're really good with babies... for a boy." He understood intuitively that the real message was that boys weren't supposed to be good with babies, that babies were squarely in female territory. But Jack didn't let that stop him. And he never forgot that first brush with sexism. From 1983 to 1989, Jack produced and hosted a weekly talk radio...