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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m really curious about this. It’s not just in my family but in a lot of my friends families as well. It seems daughters go up and beyond for their parents and sons are worthless. 
My mom was just placed in assisted living and one brother visits her weekly and my other brother rarely visits. She fell last night  and is in the hospital. My two brothers live 10 mts from the hospital and neither one has gone to see her. My one brother just called me asking when I was driving down to see her. I asked him why he hasn’t he gone to see her yet  and he moaned, “well I was going riding today”. My other brother said he was golfing today.  Fyi we’re talking about an amazing mother who would die for her kids and has always been there for us emotionally and financially(if needed).   I live hour and half away and drive down  to see her at least twice a week, sometimes 3. Of course I’m running to see her today. I just don’t get the mindset. [/quote]

Yes absolutely and the level of denial among many posters here is shocking. Who cares if it is genetic or socialization but this gender gap in providing unpaid care is real.

Women dropped out of workforce during pandemic in record numbers to care for children who could not attend in person school and needed supervision.

Women perform much higher levels of family carer work both as family volunteers and as paid carer professionals.

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/covid-19-sent-womens-workforce-progress-backward/
“The collapse of the child care sector and drastic reductions in school supervision hours as a result of COVID-19 could drive millions of mothers out of the paid workforce. Inaction could cost billions, undermine family economic security, and set gender equity back a generation.”

https://www.un.org/en/desa/world%E2%80%99s-women-2020
“While unpaid domestic and care work has intensified for both men and women during the COVID-19 pandemic, women continue to do the lion’s share. On an average day, women globally spend about three times as many hours on unpaid domestic and care work as men (4.2 hours compared to 1.7). In Northern Africa and Western Asia that gender gap is even higher, with women spending more than seven times as much as men on these activities.”[/quote]

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