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Do you think taking care of children is a low status work that people have to do and not want to do? Do you think there is something wrong with a woman preferri
by nec4b 6y ago
Do you think taking care of children is a low status work that people have to do and not want to do? Do you think there is something wrong with a woman preferring raising children instead of pursuing a boring career?
- ghaff 6y agoNot at all. However, the fact that they're now doing so during a pandemic whereas they weren't before suggests that it's not entirely voluntary.
- nec4b 6y agoI think the choice of working or staying at home is mostly a function of economics. Before the pandemic usually both partners had to work for a family to have a sufficient living standard. And now if one is forced to stay at home it makes sense for the partner with smaller income to stay at home. When you talk in terms of fairness you implicitly imply child care is somewhat less desirable than a career and are signaling to women or men who choose such path that they made a wrong choice.
- nullsense 6y ago>Do you think taking care of children is a low status work that people have to do and not want to do? I know my wife certainly feels that way.
- nec4b 6y agoAs long as she excepts that other women might have different feelings about the matter, she is completely entitled to her own. I just find it weird that when women prefer a career over raising children it is considered normal and when they prefer raising children it is viewed with suspicion (they must have been forced). Can't both preferences be equally valid and normal?
- nullsense 6y ago>Can't both preferences be equally valid and normal? They can. They are to me.