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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks for sharing. This is often a topic I think about when "lean in" conversations happen all around me but I don't have the data to prove my hunch. Will be reading this soon![/quote]

I can't think of anything more cyncically regressive than trying to claim women should not lean in because they should do all the domestic labor themselves. That's some pure bullsh*t. [/quote]

It's not actually. It's bulls$&# that well off white women (and men) think it's their right to get ahead while those they employ to do their dirty work stay behind. That's worse than regression, that's aggression.[/quote]

There is this thing called a labor market.

I too agree that domestic workers have it tough.  Our friend, a nanny, has enormous difficulty dealing with the BS paperwork required to get healthcare.

But the problem is not the UMC employers.  If the well off people didn’t pay nannies, the nannies wouldn’t have jobs.
The problem is the SUPER well off people who pay politicians to make working people’s lives worse.  Conservative billionaires try to take Medicaid away, try to lower the minimum wage, try to make it hard for working people to move up in society.  Don’t blame the upper middle class family scrimping to afford a nanny.  Blame people like Paul Ryan who took Koch money to try to take away your health care and put a tax cut for billionaires on a credit card while they say we can’t afford better programs for nannies.[/quote]

PREACH!![/quote]

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