Roberts Demonstrates Contempt for Women

[J. J.]

http://www.now.org/news/note/081905.html

"Some might question whether encouraging homemakers to become lawyers contributes to the common good."

This is an anti-lawyer joke, not an anti-woman joke.  

And for the record, those "unskilled" jobs generally pay less (at the start even) than the "skilled" jobs and there is a greater balancing of the sexes in jobs like nursing and teaching.

[J. J.]

"Some might question whether encouraging homemakers to become lawyers contributes to the common good."

some might.  You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a lawyer.  But hey, we can always use a few thousand more.

Let's see if we have this straight.  Roberts questions whether abandoning a child at home at enrolling in law school, of all things, "contributes to the common good."

My guess is that Robert is saying that it's probably not a good thing to have more lawyers.