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+1 I agree with this, and here is another side of the story. I live in a neighborhood with very busy biglaw husbands with wives and children. They are NEVER home, and in addition they are often travelling. So some of the wives are staying home to take care of their children. If both of them worked at 60+ hour a week jobs, there would be no one taking care of their kids but the nannies. The mothers, who all had professional jobs before kids, made a choice that they wanted to be there for their kids. After 10 years out of the job market, re entry would be hard, if not impossible,  in the job they left. It would be the same if their husbands left for that long also. They know that. But look around in a Biglaw firm -- very few of the wives have significant jobs. In fact, there is a study that once a man is making more than $300K, he has a non-working wife in most cases, something like 80%. Re-entry is very hard for anyone-- even these elite mothers profiled in the article.
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But why all or nothing? Why not 2 40-hour-a-week jobs?[/quote]

Because that would require ambitious men to cut back on their ambitions to balance work and family. And right now, that is something we only expect women to do.[/quote]

And maybe because it would mean lost income? Doesn't a big law partner make like $800K? If both had 40-week jobs, could they make nearly that much combined? I don't know, I'm just asking.[/quote]

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