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> Are you saying that women or black people have a too busy agenda doing their <enter stereotype> stuff that they possibly cannot use github? That's exactly wh
by csixty4 13y ago
> Are you saying that women or black people have a too busy agenda doing their <enter stereotype> stuff that they possibly cannot use github?
That's exactly what the article is saying:
> 52% of women caregivers with incomes at or below of the national median of $35k spend 20+ hours each week providing care. The largest racial demographics in this group are black and hispanic.
20+ hours a week caring for children, elders, or family members with some form of disability. Fair or not, it's expected that they'll do it.
> Due to additional pay inequity contributing to less access to paid childcare, women of color perform far more child care than white women.
They can't just pay someone else to do it. If they could afford a babysitter while they hack on some code in order to get a better-paying job, that would be awesome. But that's not realistic for a lot of people.
> On childcare alone, mothers spend more than twice as much time per day as fathers do.
Fathers are a lot more involved in raising children than they used to be, but mothers still get stuck with the bulk of the work.
Hell, I've lost 4-5 hours out of my week since I took up jogging. It's a big boost to my health and a way to keep life-long weight issues at bay, so I'm not complaining. But just taking on an additional "hobby" like that takes up the equivalent of half a work day.
- yummyfajitas 13y agoThose poor helpless mothers, being "stuck with the bulk of the work". If only they were allowed to choose whether or not to have children, choose the father of their children, and negotiate with the aforementioned father their childcare arrangements before getting pregnant. Sadly, we are discussing women in rural Pakistan who don't get to make these choices.
- steveklabnik 13y agoYou're discounting all kinds of external social factors that lead to this.