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Not just looks and sex, try to even find male babysitter. People just assume woman is the role to raise children so naturally babysitter should be female.
by ilyt 4y ago
Not just looks and sex, try to even find male babysitter. People just assume woman is the role to raise children so naturally babysitter should be female.
- SamoyedFurFluff 4y agoBabysitters are not generally the employment that comes to mind in moving the needle on an entire average income raising on a gender-wide scale.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoI would have assumed people think a woman has a lower probability of being a child abuser and/or higher probability of being able to provide the type of nurturing they want for their babies and toddlers, so they reject male caretakers.
- yucky 4y agoThe vast majority of child murders are perpetrated by women, not men. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4846035/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4846035/
- lotsofpulp 4y agoI do not think that study is relevant for assessing the risks of abuse from an unrelated adult man or woman being paid to take care of your child. >Mothers were identified as the perpetrators in all of the neonaticides and were the most common perpetrators overall (71.0%; 95% CI 63.9%, 77.2%).