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I suspect that as people push off having kids until they are in their late thirties, choose not to have children, or have single-income arrangements due to divo

by lumost 3y ago

I suspect that as people push off having kids until they are in their late thirties, choose not to have children, or have single-income arrangements due to divorce/family dynamics... the support for families in corporations will decline. There is nothing that says that a corporation can't optimize their culture to only have workers without children/dependents. Probably a terrible thing for society at large.

red_admiral 3y ago
> There is nothing that says that a corporation can't optimize their culture to only have workers without children/dependents. Arguably, many already do. As "main child-raiser" (as opposed to "parent", again a place where this matters) is not equally distributed across the sexes in our society, I would say though that (1.) this does leave you at risk of legal challenges over structural discrimination and (2.) it leaves a bad taste when a corporation one the one hand does this, and on the other hand bemoans how few women in "tech" (or any other sector) they're getting. Pushing off kids until the late 30s also has a different risk profile if it's your womb those kids might be coming out of.