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Precisely. The flexibility would be helpful irrespective of gender. It says a lot about our culture (or lack thereof) that we even have this issue to start with
by wmccullough 10y ago
Precisely. The flexibility would be helpful irrespective of gender. It says a lot about our culture (or lack thereof) that we even have this issue to start with.
- mpweiher 10y agoAnd that we find it to be an issue once it's a problem for women, whereas as long as it was a problem just for men it was perfectly fine.
- cperciva 10y agoWhen people followed the gender roles of "women stay home and raise children; men leave their kids behind and go to work", neither gender had much overlap between employment and child care. Societal acceptance of men as performing child care lags behind societal acceptance of women as performing paid employment, so it's inevitable that the issues inherent in combining child care and paid employment have hit women first. It's important to raise awareness that this is an issue which affects both genders, but I wouldn't ascribe any malice to the fact that it first gained attention as an issue affecting women.
- lostsock 10y agoBeautifully put!
- matthewmacleod 10y agoNo, that's nonsense and you are projecting your own insecurities onto this issue.
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- KirinDave 10y agoThat's mostly because of other men in a male dominated workplace. It is statistically not going to be a woman that they're lying to. That pesky toxic masculinity hurts men quite a bit, but a lot of men seem invested in maintaining it. Changing this status quo benefits everyone.