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[quote=Anonymous]The issue isn't feminism, it's the larger market and social response.  Now that it's more common for women to WOH, the market has responded, housing and other prices have gone up, and most families now need two incomes where they used to need one for a middle class existance.  What started out as the ideal of giving women a choice to work is starting to become more of a mandate in middle class families in order to maintain a middle class lifestyle.  (I'm in no way talking about the wives of big law attorneys here making the 'sacrifice' but rather the rest of us).  And, those of us who don't feel we have a logical choice of staying home, tailor our working lives so we can have as much of it as possible since we know we can't have it all.  It is absolutely no surprise to me that my male coworker with a stay at home wife in the same job as I will likely advance further.  He doesn't have the distraction of sick kids, day care pick-up, and driving to doctor's appointments taking up his workday.  And, I don't blame my employer for this.  This is a market and we all have to compete/participate in some way.  [/quote]

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