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If you drive down my friend's neighborhood in North Virginia, you see house after house of moms with law-degrees, math degrees, engineering degrees, most with M
by craig1f 9y ago
If you drive down my friend's neighborhood in North Virginia, you see house after house of moms with law-degrees, math degrees, engineering degrees, most with Masters, who said "fuck working" after 5-10 years and decided to become stay-at-home. All with substantial student debt that they didn't work long enough to justify.
The number of women who WANT to work is a lot lower than everyone wants to admit. And when they see the option to leave the working world, many of them take it. So much education that just gets wasted when they realize that having a career is not nearly as fulfilling as they have been led to believe.
If I won the lottery tomorrow, my first thought would be "sweet, we can afford a third kid!"
- creep 9y agoI don't think the education is wasted-- not if you view education as more than a means to employment. However, I agree that most women will take the opportunity to leave the working world when it becomes viable to do so.
- watwut 9y agoWhy do you assume they are full filled now or that they decision to stay at home was not pragmatical? Or not sacrifice for what they believe is best for children? Some are fullfilled, some are not.
- creep 9y agoHe/she is saying that this is the case for most women. Most women like to lead more balanced lives, and a part of that is getting an education, then working for some time, traveling, then taking care of the kids and yet more traveling. Most men like to work for most of their lives.