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If you’ve visited India, you wouldn’t be surprised. Most women do stay home and take care of kids And it’s really hard work btw, cooking and looking after the

• iguy 6y ago
  Yes I exaggerate slightly. But I wonder a lot about the quality of this data. Doesn't about half the country still work on farms? Low-tech farming has endless labor for all kinds of hands, but little paperwork.
  • bloodorange 6y ago
    It's not exaggeration. It's disrespectful and taking their effort for granted.
    • iguy 6y ago
      To be clear, I mentioned this stereotype specifically to claim this is not what's happening.
  • asenna 6y ago
    I'm from an upper middle-class family in India and the data from all my relatives (including distant ones) matches this - 80% does seem about right for housewives. Similar for my friends. It's changing rapidly with the newer generation but for my parents' generation that is definitely the norm.
• renewiltord 6y ago
  Yeah, but it's a serious waste of their abilities as humans. It's no surprise that dual-professional households there who hire specialists for the cooking and looking after the house parts have better lives (as judged by the fact that few women who are professionals will want to become housewives while the opposite is a common desire).
  • dudul 6y ago
    How is taking care of their children a serious waste of their abilities as humans? When you look at all the BS jobs around, spending your time taking care of your family sounds much more productive and rewarding to me.
    • renewiltord 6y ago
      Because there are rapid diminishing returns with every extra hour past the first few. My parents put a lot of work into me, but they were also full-time surgeons. My mum most definitely put a hell of a lot of work into me but she didn't spend all the time at home. Worked out pretty well. Of course you want to allow for people to do whatever they want, but part of that is enabling them to not have to be stay-at-home parents. And most people want to do something more than that, in practice, because creating things is a fundamental human need that most people have. If people want to be stay-at-home parents and they can do it, more power to them, but it's important to allow them to make that choice otherwise unconstrainedly and not through societal pressure to keep women at home because jobs are unsafe (there are whole categories of work one avoids at the margin in India if one is a woman, because you cannot guarantee safe transport from/to one's place of work).
      • dudul 6y ago
        > I turned out to be pretty damned awesome. I'm not gonna waste time arguing with someone who writes something like that.
        • renewiltord 6y ago
          Don't be like that. It's just a bit of humour. But fine, I took it out. Anyway, it's not important enough to argue so this is an okay outcome.
      • citrablue 6y ago
        One example from your own experience is not generalizable.