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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of the weirder cons our society has ever been duped into is buying into the idea that your career is what should define your life or that a woman’s  “contribution to society” via grinding for some corporation is to be valued more highly than raising and rearing her own children and focusing her energy and efforts into nurturing the emotional and spiritual well being of her family. Baffling how backward it is to me that women fought for this.[/quote]

What about men?[/quote]

DP: Their careers also should not define their lives. And a family with options has the right to decide which parent earns the income. And the reality for us has been that when we had children, we both needed to change the kind of work we did so that we could have a fuller life with our family. We recentered our focus. We exchanged more money for more time.

But I disagree with PP about what women were fighting for; it is a gross misunderstanding to say that women were fighting to force every woman into the workplace and out of their homes. That was never the goal. Women fought for the right of women to get to choose to work and not be forced to stay at home if that wasn't their choice, and for women in the workforce, whether by choice or need, to be treated equally to men who work. Remember that not all women become mothers; not all mothers have partners; and not all families can or want to choose to have a parent at home. Women who work deserve to be treated the same as men who work. That is what women were fighting for. It never meant that families could never again choose to have a parent at home. The unfortunate consequence, however, is that the economy has shifted in a way that effectively eliminates that option for most families.[/quote]

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