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Why women? Like men dont also have caregiving activites.

matthewmacleod 3y ago
More women have caregiving responsibilities, meaning that they are more affected. You might say they are especially effected. But you knew that.
- nerdchum 3y ago
  We encourage women into the workplace with a million diversity initiatives, we also need to encourage and support men in caregiving roles and not give women preferential treatment in caregiver roles.
re-thc 3y ago
> Like men dont also have caregiving activites. Data has shown they do less of it and society has been setup this way. Women have been giving up their career - not because they want to but because that's what society and their family pressured them into. Data has also shown men's view of what counts as domestic work is vastly different from that of women. Sadly a lot of men only do 1/2 the job.
- pizzafeelsright 3y ago
  It takes a lot of strength to stand against the pressure of society and family or social pressure. We interact with about 30% patriarchs and 70% matriarchs. The tension builds when there's a heavy imbalance when one type of structure outnumbers the other type because it becomes stark that one household leads differently than the other.
meepmorp 3y ago
I was a stay at home dad for both of my kids, and still do the lion's share of caregiving in my family. If nothing else, the experience showed me exactly how unbalanced the distribution of caregiving work is between men and women, both in concrete terms and in people expectations of who's job it's "supposed to be." There's plenty of petty sexism around it, I had plenty of people say things like "oh you're giving mom a break," or, "you're babysitting the kids today," and there's very much an expectation that men are worse at it than women. You could view that as misandrist, but (imo) there was often the unspoken assumption that my wife wasn't living up to her responsibilities because I was doing "her" job. It's not that we don't have those responsibilities, it's that we (as a group) are overwhelmingly less likely to be primary caregivers and to have to adjust our for-money work lives around the those responsibilities.
asylteltine 3y ago
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mathgeek 3y ago
Best to remember that these kinds of statements are statistical rather than definitive.
literalis 3y ago
23% of US households with children have just one parent and 86% of those households are single mothers. I am not even sure what this article is claiming to compare but it strikes me as ridiculous to not take the above information into account. Of course it is harder to provide child care if the kid doesn't even live with you and I would think most the men are providing some form of child support.

More women have caregiving responsibilities, meaning that they are more affected. You might say they are especially effected. But you knew that.

nerdchum 3y ago
We encourage women into the workplace with a million diversity initiatives, we also need to encourage and support men in caregiving roles and not give women preferential treatment in caregiver roles.

re-thc 3y ago

> Like men dont also have caregiving activites. Data has shown they do less of it and society has been setup this way. Women have been giving up their career - not because they want to but because that's what society and their family pressured them into. Data has also shown men's view of what counts as domestic work is vastly different from that of women. Sadly a lot of men only do 1/2 the job.

pizzafeelsright 3y ago
It takes a lot of strength to stand against the pressure of society and family or social pressure. We interact with about 30% patriarchs and 70% matriarchs. The tension builds when there's a heavy imbalance when one type of structure outnumbers the other type because it becomes stark that one household leads differently than the other.

meepmorp 3y ago

I was a stay at home dad for both of my kids, and still do the lion's share of caregiving in my family. If nothing else, the experience showed me exactly how unbalanced the distribution of caregiving work is between men and women, both in concrete terms and in people expectations of who's job it's "supposed to be." There's plenty of petty sexism around it, I had plenty of people say things like "oh you're giving mom a break," or, "you're babysitting the kids today," and there's very much an expectation that men are worse at it than women. You could view that as misandrist, but (imo) there was often the unspoken assumption that my wife wasn't living up to her responsibilities because I was doing "her" job. It's not that we don't have those responsibilities, it's that we (as a group) are overwhelmingly less likely to be primary caregivers and to have to adjust our for-money work lives around the those responsibilities.

asylteltine 3y ago

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mathgeek 3y ago

Best to remember that these kinds of statements are statistical rather than definitive.

literalis 3y ago

23% of US households with children have just one parent and 86% of those households are single mothers. I am not even sure what this article is claiming to compare but it strikes me as ridiculous to not take the above information into account. Of course it is harder to provide child care if the kid doesn't even live with you and I would think most the men are providing some form of child support.