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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]RainDog
(28,784 posts)If women made more money, men would have more options too, like being stay-at-home dads.
Likewise, the workplace has to accept that Americans have families and both parents have lives away from their homes and their jobs. When working people have no union power to create such conditions, they generally don't happen outside of companies that are trying to hire the newest new thing on a large scale. Most people don't work in those jobs.
When men and women both work outside the home, say in blue collar situations, there is more gender equity in the household, at least the last time I read about this. Women still do most of the work, but it's a better situation.
Most white collar professional jobs are salaried and the expectation in them is that employees will put in more than 40 hours a week in order to advance or even maintain for a while. That's an impossible expectation for two working parents. Something has to give and it's the partner with the lower salary, and that's more often women.