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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good for them! Hope it works out. [/quote]

This. But if it were my daughter I would be privately disappointed after spending so much money on sending her to college and then to not work professionally. I could have saved that money in my retirement instead and retired earlier. I do believe that the world needs more women in the workforce, especially in leadership roles and science, to change the status quo for all women.  [/quote]

26% of mothers choose to stay at home, meaning only 74% of women are opting for the workforce, yet the numbers in most professions are nearing 50/50, when arguably it should be closer to 41/59. Women are outpacing men in college numbers (and 44 percent of tenure-track faculty members and 36 percent of full professors are women). 42% of all U.S. businesses are run by women, though the Fortune 1000 CEO percentage still sucks (just over 10%). 40+% of lawyers are women. In DC, almost half of the doctors are women, and 38% of doctors nationally are women. Those are not 1950s statistics.

No one is forced to stay at home by society, but you think women should be forced to work? Why would you force your daughter to make a choice that didn't follow her heart and what she might feel is best for her family?

In any case, you probably don't have to worry because it seem unlikely that our daughters' generation will have the luxury of making that choice. It's beginning to look more and more like our daughters are not the ones at risk. More and more men are dropping out of college (only 40% are men to begin with, and 40% of those men report that they have considered dropping out) and the workforce (7.2 million men aged 25-54 have dropped out of the workforce). The next big challenge for our daughters is going to be that instead of being forced to stay at home, many of them will no longer even have that option because there won't be enough men able to contribute to a stable family financial situation.[/quote]

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