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Contextualize the event, though. Womanhood and motherhood are often quite strongly connected. An event celebrating and developing women should anticipate a high
by hungie 2y ago
Contextualize the event, though. Womanhood and motherhood are often quite strongly connected. An event celebrating and developing women should anticipate a higher percentage of the audience will be mothers with infants.
Be prepared for that, communicate with your audience in advance, have clear expectations with staff, perhaps be more permissive with infants, etc.
The context matters here.
- billy99k 2y ago"The context matters here." It shouldn't. I have two young kids. My youngest has started making loud noises/talking during events like this and I immediately headed for the door with her. It's completely inconsiderate to the other people in the room.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> Womanhood and motherhood are often quite strongly connected Was there on-site childcare?
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- hungie 2y ago> Why? If you look at a random sample of humans, vs a random sample of 20-50 year old women, the sample that is women will include more mothers than the sample across humanity, generally. Typically, a random sample across all people will include approximately 50% men, who are statistically very unlikely to be birthing parents. > Doesn't that reinforce stereotypes? No, because you are accommodating both parents and non parents. Admitting that parents exist and that they can also be founders or professionals is a negation of the idea that women must be exclusively caretakers. > Why not expect people to be responsible parents? I don't see anyone in the article who was an irresponsible parent.
- bumby 2y ago>who are statistically very unlikely to be birthing parents. This is an odd framing unless you are expecting people to be birthing at a conference. To the OP’s point, there’s no reason someone who birthed a child should shoulder a disproportionate amount of the child rearing. So is yours an age-based argument rather than a gender one?
- cthalupa 2y agoIdeal reality vs. actual reality are separate things. In fact, recognizing actual reality is a prerequisite to going "well damn this actually really sucks we should fix that." In an ideal world, men would be just as likely to be taking on the responsibilities of childcare in equal measures with women. In the real world, even in "progressive" areas, women disproportionately are shouldered with those responsibilities. It is something that I would expect an event focusing on female founders and the challenges they face would take into account.
- em-bee 2y agothere’s no reason someone who birthed a child should shoulder a disproportionate amount of the child rearing there is: breastfeeding. and no, pumping breastmilk and having dad feed the baby with a bottle is not the same thing. the necessary reality is that the body contact that mother and baby experience while breastfeeding has no equivalence in the other gender, and if you value that experience then by necessity a breastfeeding mother must be doing a disproportionate amount of the child rearing.