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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is such a stupid piece that I can't believe the NYT published it. The article proposes that the government should pay all women for childcare and house cleaning. [b]That is about the most anti-feminist thing I can imagine. 
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If the author is so concerned about the low wages of women who provide childcare and/or cleaning services, why not simply advocate to pay these people better? Instead she (who apparently did not work outside the home while raising her children) thinks she should have gotten paid for that choice. Unbelievably self-centered.[/quote]

I totally agree.  It's very coddling of women.  "There there, pat you on the head, we agree it's hard work so we will give you a little wage to acknowledge it.  Now back to childbearing!"

The alternative is that women (and their partners) decide for themselves - a parent stays at home, or they both enter the workforce and pay others for childcare.

Women have the smarts to decide for themselves.[/quote]

And do what with their kids? Leave them to appallingly low paid workers. [/quote]

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