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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are they so out of touch that they think child care is what is stopping people from wanting to return to the office?

And they think these people will want to commute back to the office with their kids on Metro?

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I don't think you are the demographic these services are intended for.[/quote]

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Sit down, office worker. 
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The vast majority of employed women work in offices. [/quote]

Not really, though.  Biggest types of jobs are teachers and health care.[/quote]
Over 70% of office workers are women. [/quote]

Which is different than saying "the vast majority of employed women work in office."

The denominators are different, if you are missing that.

I think it's like half of office workers are women.  [/quote]
And yet, the vast majority of women work in office roles. 
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/wb/data/occupations/most-common-occupations-women-labor-force[/quote]

Pretty sure that's not what that table shows. [/quote]

Yeah, of those top 10 occupations, "office work" accounts for about a third of the jobs.[/quote]
Pretty sure that you are not capable of doing math. [/quote]

God, I hate DCUM.

Ugh, because I'm going to take the bait:  
total jobs listed there:  about 21M

Office worker jobs in that list:
Secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive
Managers, all other
Accountants and auditors
Receptionists and information clerks
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks
Office clerks, general
Financial managers
First-Line supervisors of office and administrative support workers

Those amount to about 7.7M.

7.7/21 = about 36%[/quote]
This is an odd point to argue and also to lie about.

Several office jobs you missed included: social workers and human resource workers. [/quote]

Which still wouldn't lead to the "vast majority of women being office workers".  Adding those two categories gets you to 39% of the jobs listed.  A "majority" is at least half.  A "vast majority" is more like 75%.

Someone, probably you, made the claim that "The vast majority of employed women work in offices."  Despite evidence that you are not correct, from a website you posted, you are stuck on being wrong.  Why is it important for you to believe that "the vast majority of women work in office"?

Here's another source, that characterizes occupation a bit differently:  "Women accounted for 51.8 percent of all workers employed in management, professional, and related occupations in 2019, somewhat more than their share of total employment (47.0 percent). The share of women in specific occupations within this large category varied."  Note that teachers, I think, are in that "professional" category so that category doesn't mean "office" necessarily.  https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/womens-databook/2020/home.htm#:~:text=9A%20and%209B.)-,Occupation%20and%20industry,within%20this%20large%20category%20varied.

The point here, though, is that regardless of job, women (particularly poorer women, who can ALSO BE office workers) have been struggling with finding and affording child care.  This is a pot of money that might help.[/quote]

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