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Kids' effect on work life is an important topic. I think it's possible that male, man, men can be substituted for female, woman, women in this article and have
by djoldman 6y ago
Kids' effect on work life is an important topic.
I think it's possible that male, man, men can be substituted for female, woman, women in this article and have it be just as true except for this:
> But what people without kids may not realize is the extent to which people with kids want their time to be consumed by them. And, on the whole, I’d guess women more so than men.
I have no data on that.
- garmaine 6y agoWell, I have anicdata: every working parent I have ever known wants to spend more time with their kids. All the stay-at-home moms I know (except one) complain about their kids, their repetitive daily routine, and wish they had a job or career. The stay-at-home dads I know love it, but this can probably be explained as self-selection: it's because they're so family focused that they flipped society's expectations and stayed home while the wife works. So on the whole my expectation would have been that this desire to be home and with their kids is universal among men and women working parents, and probably equal across genders.
- username90 6y agoOr its just politics, few people admit they are happy with anything since it gives them less leverage in negotiations.
- aklemm 6y agoExcept that society-wide these duties fall disproportionately to women.
- xbar 6y agoTrue. But I think that this problem does not need to be solved "society-wide" but does need to be universally solvable for any interested individual, regardless of gender. Practically, with technology not with policy.
- scooble 6y agoThe data could also be misleading. You could look at the numbers of women in the workplace in the 50s and conclude that women generally aren’t interested in the world of work. But this would completely overlook the barriers they faced - such as gendered stereotypes of the kind the author seems to subscribe to.