different standards

This week I've been reading several articles/commentary that all relate to the idea that our society still has very different standards for women.

1) Comments on the size of female nominees: http://tinyurl.com/ms8vnp

2) Concern over maternal age and not paternal:
http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/worlds-oldest-mom-dies/

3) Questioning a mother putting herself in harm's way on the job:
http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/16/a-mothers-note-from-captivity/

What's my take?
1) really unfair
2) paternal old age is still mostly biological though apparently you can extract sperm from even someone recently deceased; should there be an age limit for women to bear children with fertility assistance? Makes me think of evolutionary biology/psychology, men just want to spread their seed, women having greater investment with each offspring.
3) male reporters do this all the time; does it make it right for either mothers or fathers? it's their own judgment call but I would certainly take the risk into consideration. Again, this goes back to the view of women as the primary child caretaker (assumed in #2).

Did God create woman to be primary child caretaker? Biologically, yes, at least when the children are young. Later might be up for grabs. God does command the Israelites to participate in several wars and the men were the only ones who fought those...