> Maybe we need to retreat from the idea of the nuclear family altogether, and raise children in extended families or even communities I don't think this will

> Maybe we need to retreat from the idea of the nuclear family altogether, and raise children in extended families or even communities I don't think this will work very well. Extended families are one thing, and people can and do make such arrangements - but by and large, it turns out people care more about their kids than their "career potential", and there's nothing wrong with this in principle! The position that women's achievements in the workforce must be exactly equal to men's, and that anything less than that is oppressive, is quite ideological and does not really stand up to scrutiny once you account for these factors. Aggressiveness is a different matter, though. It's not something that we promote on purpose to keep the women down, it's a consequence of how complex firms and enterprises are structured in the first place. The whole point of firms is that they're like tiny little private governments or fiefdoms, that internally run on the exact same kind of politics as actual governments do! This comes with obvious drawbacks (the primacy of aggressiveness un the workplace is but one of many, many such distortions!), but also has very real benefits - larger firms and enterprises really are better at achieving their goals in many ways. When we say that some things are "natural", this need not mean "actively good" in some absolute sense - it might just be the case that we don't trust that people will manage to do any better!