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Honestly, your message made me cringe.  Please don't teach your daughter to walk around with a chip on her shoulder regarding anything remotely related to unpaid labor.  Please teach her to be financially independent, strong and confident.  With that skill set she will have the confidence to state what she needs/wants, be able to clearly define her expectations in a relationship, and wait to get in a long-term committed relationship until she is confident it is the right person (or never get in a long-term relationship).  It makes for a much more positive outlook on life than what you are currently teaching her.[/quote]

Ah, yes, female children should not be taught to set and enforce boundaries or consider reciprocity......  They should just find the "right person".   Teaching my child to recognize when she is performing unpaid labor and consider if and why it is valuable to her and whether it is being done as part of a reciprocal benefit IS teaching her to "clearly define her expectations in a relationship."  [/quote]

I agree with the first PP. Teaching a child to demand payment for things nobody asks her to do is setting her up for a lot of heartache. Wouldn't it make more sense to teach her to put things in perspective and realize that Christmas postcards is not the hill she should die on?[/quote]

Yeah, women currently make, like, sixty cents on the dollar to men, so clearly teaching them about all the free shit women are often socialized to do that they shouldn't be doing for free that btw translates into the work arena for many women is just bananas. 
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You sound very confused. You don't know any women who out-earn men?[/quote]

Have you been living under a rock?  Women who do the same job as men regularly make less money than men. [/quote]

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