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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]SAHMs who have had the privilege of elite educations and degrees are contributing to society if they raise their children well (an Ivy degree does not mean you're going to be a great mom), BUT not as much as those who manage to raise their children well and have a positive influence in the workforce. The difference between the two groups becomes more noticeable as we age and enter our professional "primes" in our 50s and 60s. [/quote]

You propose too simple a calculus. First, working in the workforce does not autmatically make one a "positive influence in the workforce." Second, even is on has a "positive inlfuence in the workforce," one can have a negative net influence on the lives of others. You sound like the type of person who subscribes to the false idea that having a high-status or high-earnings career ias the ultimate measure of a life. No, the ultimate measure is being a good person, and by being good one can have a positive influence in a variety of areas of life and, one hopes, a positive influence on the lives of others.[/quote]

1) Being a SAHM doesn't mean that one will have a positive influence on your family members. 
2) Being a WOTHM doesn't mean that one will have a positive influence on family members or the workforce.

BUT

A) Assuming that both SAHM and WOTHMs can be good moms and exert positive influences (which are not zero-sum), it is true that
B) A WOTHM may exert a positive influence in the workforce (and will likely have more power having been at her career for 20-30 years+), whereas it is clear that a SAHM will never have that influence in the workforce.

*NOTHING was said to correlate high status and high income to positive influence; although it is very clear that seniority matters in the workforce and that seniority will often bring higher pay and status. Also, there are many areas of the workforce that do not have high status or pay, but are influential nonetheless: education (childhood, secondary, and higher), the public sector/govt, not-for-profits/NGOs. [/quote]

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