To the Editor:
When the government gets finished satisfying Judith Shulevitz’s proposal for paying women for being mothers, it can deal with back pay for all the millions of men who were pressed into military service. America’s most egregious form of gender discrimination was the draft. The pay was poor, the food was often bad and the housing was substandard. At times your job involved killing or being killed.
The vestiges of this inequality are alive and well today. Only young men are required to register for the draft, a reminder that someday they too might be dragged off to fight in yet another foreign war.
JAMES F. McMANUS
Phoenix
