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Actually, enforcing sexism or providing basic income are not the only solutions. For example, in the Netherlands, 40% of women work only part-time (and only 4%
by tomp 12y ago
Actually, enforcing sexism or providing basic income are not the only solutions. For example, in the Netherlands, 40% of women work only part-time (and only 4% of those say they want to work full-time, so it's not because of discrimination). It seems that it's possible to shift back towards single-income families simply by becoming a highly-developed, socially-safe country.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2010/11/dutch_feminism http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2010/11/du...
http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2010/11/going_dutch.html http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2010/11/going...
http://www.macleans.ca/news/world/the-feminismhappiness-axis/ http://www.macleans.ca/news/world/the-feminismhappiness-axis...
- AnthonyMouse 12y ago> It seems that it's possible to shift back towards single-income families simply by becoming a highly-developed, socially-safe country. In other words, do something sufficiently similar to providing a basic income.
- mafribe 12y agoThe point of a basic guaranteed income is that you get the income unconditionally, even without working. So what tomp is alluding out is emphatically not a basic income
- mafribe 12y agoWhen women primarily work part time and (by implication) men full time, you still have a sex-based division of labour. It's just less extreme than in the olden days, where men did all the work and women sat around and raise children.