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You're not wrong. Women entering the workforce instead of staying home to mother children has a detrimental effect on families, despite receiving praise as soci

You're not wrong. Women entering the workforce instead of staying home to mother children has a detrimental effect on families, despite receiving praise as social progress. It's good for corporations because it doubles the labor supply, lowering wages for both men and women. States love it because they receive more income tax, since household work was previously untaxed. Families, especially children, are getting the shaft.

Arizhel 10y ago
>Women entering the workforce instead of staying home to mother children has a detrimental effect on families, despite receiving praise as social progress. It IS progress, for individual women or single moms who weren't lucky enough to hook up with a good-enough husband, or who didn't want to go the traditional family-and-kids route in life. It's been detrimental to society overall however because it's become a norm, and almost a requirement for families to earn enough to stay out of the ghetto; families don't feel they have the luxury to have only one working parent because the cost-of-living is too high, and also, many women feel (usually correctly) that they'd commit career suicide by taking off a few years to be a stay-at-home mom, because companies don't value this and see workers who take a few years' break as no longer employable. >Families, especially children, are getting the shaft. Yep.