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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's broken is an economy that forces a majority of parents to work full-time in order to make ends meet.[/quote]

As more parents chose to work, the economy adapted to that model. Not the other way around.[/quote]

This. Plus, people have loftier standards today. They don't want to live in a tiny house, never go out to eat, only go on vacations within driving distance. Lifestyle expectations are so different from those of our grandparents. [/quote]

We could certainly live more frugally on one salary. But we don't want to because I want to have a career, and would be miserable as a SAHM. And my experience is pretty typical.

[quote]In America, women are now just as likely as men to report working because they want to – not because they must, according to the new study by Schnabel, the Robert and Ann Rosenthal Assistant Professor of sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences. Even among very religious Americans, where men still report wanting to work more than women, there’s movement toward parity over time.[/quote]

[quote]“We’re not explaining the stalled gender revolution, but we are showing that preferences aren’t the reason for it,” he said. “Based on this survey question, it doesn’t seem women don’t want to work. Rather, it seems that structural and cultural factors put up barriers to women who do want to work.”[/quote]
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/03/women-want-work-despite-workforce-precarity

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