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In the context of a society with gender norms like ours, it is special and probably quite unusual. And typically in male-supported households the woman is resp

In the context of a society with gender norms like ours, it is special and probably quite unusual. And typically in male-supported households the woman is responsible for housework and child care, which clearly wasn’t this developer’s primary occupation. We can certainly hope for a world where this sort of thing is commonplace, but it’s not the one we’re in right now.

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buboard 8y ago
> with gender norms like ours, it is special forgive me, but gender norms have changed even in eastern europe. Is america that left behind?
- adventured 8y ago
  > forgive me, but gender norms have changed even in eastern europe. Is america that left behind? Labor force participation rate for women, by country: US 56%, Lithuania 56%, Estonia 56%, Germany 55%, Finland 55%, Latvia 55%, Austria 55%, Portugal 53%, Ireland 53%, Spain 52%, Luxembourg 52%, Slovenia 52%, Czech 52%, Slovakia 52%, Armenia 51%, France 51%, Hungary 48%, Bulgaria 48%, Belgium 48%, Albania 47%, Ukraine 47%, Serbia 46%, Greece 46%, Croatia 45%, Romania 44%, Macedonia 42%, Italy 40%, Moldova 39%, Bosnia 35%, Turkey 32% Iceland 73%, Norway 61%, Sweden 61%, Denmark 59%, Netherlands 58%, Belarus 58%, Russia 57%, United Kingdom 57%
  - kuerbel 8y ago
    What you are (intentionally?) not saying is that the rate of women participating in the workforce is steadily on the rise since decades while otoh the rate of men steadily drops. http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/labour-force-participation-rate-female-male-ratio http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/labour-force-participation-ra... In most developed countries the rate is slowly but surely reaching equal levels.
  - buboard 8y ago
    not what i asked. Something that happens 50-80% of the time is not special.
golemiprague 8y ago
I agree it is unusual, women are used to guys financing them and they really hate when it is the other way around but it doesn't make her an hero for what she did, maybe an hero for defying social norms. I would say though that women love a man with a mission, they are willing to sacrifice more for someone who make his mission as a priority over the woman as a priority. You need to be a very mentally strong man though to pull it off properly, a hero maybe.

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buboard 8y ago

> with gender norms like ours, it is special forgive me, but gender norms have changed even in eastern europe. Is america that left behind?

adventured 8y ago
> forgive me, but gender norms have changed even in eastern europe. Is america that left behind? Labor force participation rate for women, by country: US 56%, Lithuania 56%, Estonia 56%, Germany 55%, Finland 55%, Latvia 55%, Austria 55%, Portugal 53%, Ireland 53%, Spain 52%, Luxembourg 52%, Slovenia 52%, Czech 52%, Slovakia 52%, Armenia 51%, France 51%, Hungary 48%, Bulgaria 48%, Belgium 48%, Albania 47%, Ukraine 47%, Serbia 46%, Greece 46%, Croatia 45%, Romania 44%, Macedonia 42%, Italy 40%, Moldova 39%, Bosnia 35%, Turkey 32% Iceland 73%, Norway 61%, Sweden 61%, Denmark 59%, Netherlands 58%, Belarus 58%, Russia 57%, United Kingdom 57%
- kuerbel 8y ago
  What you are (intentionally?) not saying is that the rate of women participating in the workforce is steadily on the rise since decades while otoh the rate of men steadily drops. http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/labour-force-participation-rate-female-male-ratio http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/labour-force-participation-ra... In most developed countries the rate is slowly but surely reaching equal levels.
- buboard 8y ago
  not what i asked. Something that happens 50-80% of the time is not special.

golemiprague 8y ago

I agree it is unusual, women are used to guys financing them and they really hate when it is the other way around but it doesn't make her an hero for what she did, maybe an hero for defying social norms. I would say though that women love a man with a mission, they are willing to sacrifice more for someone who make his mission as a priority over the woman as a priority. You need to be a very mentally strong man though to pull it off properly, a hero maybe.