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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]90 percent of women on my block are SAHMs. My neighbor for instance has one kid at home, an executive husband and she does clean her own house and manage house and makes dinner for three every night. Except weekends.

Her husband works in an office and eats breakfast and lunch there.

So an extra chicken cutlet at dinner time and sex on his birthday is what he gets for sharing his 600k a year salary with her.

She can deal with mental load [/quote]

I am a lawyer in biglaw and I am constantly told on this board I should quit my job to support my husband’s even more lucrative job instead of expecting him to do half the work. Seeing you frame it as if being a SAHM is a favor men do for their wives is really hilarious. First husbands burn out their working wives by not doing the work, and then when women lean out so it gets done, they’re painted as leeches. Lovely. [/quote]

This. There are so many men who think women use motherhood as an excuse to get out of working. It’s so weird! I literally don’t know a single woman for who having kids was a chance to do LESS work. It’s an amazing joke. If you have a job, having kids is this intense second shift that is I credibly hard to balance with all but the cushiest working gigs. And if you stay home, you do the work of mom, nanny, and housekeeper. Either way, there is no way it amounts to less work than you were doing before. Even with outsourcing.

The only people who think they will be able to get away with doing the exact same amount of labor after kids as before are men. Snd that expectation is a big part of what drives this.[/quote]

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