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Good job of posting the bleeding obvious but politically incorrect truth. All of the women I know who are full-time mothers do so out of personal choice. Most
by brc 16y ago
Good job of posting the bleeding obvious but politically incorrect truth.
All of the women I know who are full-time mothers do so out of personal choice. Most left careers of some type or another to do so.
Obviously there are exceptions to this rule, but there remains a large amount of families out there where the man is happy to bring in the money and the woman is happy to look after the kids. It's still the mainstream family model, even if the mother is working, it's usually for financial rather than career-aspiration reasons.
I do hope this post leads someone out there to make the big jump. A world with a female version of Zuckerberg out there would be a very interesting one indeed.
- niels_olson 16y agoMy favorite was the gorgeous 29 year-old chief resident in pediatrics who said it's strictly a back-up plan: she's marrying a neurosurgeon and has no plans to work after residency. Um . . . Do you think the admissions committees would have committed the social resources of a coveted medical school seat (only 45% of applicants ever get in, and the total cost of the education is around $400,000 per seat) or residency (her training involves other people dying) if she put that in her personal statement?!