Women's work.

• Author: Thompson, Tracy
• Position: Letters

You can drag out all the fancy sociological explanations that you want as to why women seem far more concerned than men about homeland security, but it boils down to one thing: Men just don't "do" risk assessment ("Homeland Security is for Girls," Garance Franke-Ruta, April).

This fact first became clear to me several years ago, when on a vacation trip to the beach I watched my husband and the husband of a friend--both of them men with advanced degrees from prestigious institutions of higher learning and with off-the-charts IQs--casually conversing in the ocean, while my husband would occasionally lift our two-year-old daughter over his head so that the breakers, which were over his head, wouldn't actually drown her. It did not occur to either man that maybe they should...