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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a public school teacher and am angry at teachers who will be taking the day off and thus closing their school. It is not because I don't support gender equality - I do, and I dislike Trump as much as anyone. But the march is very short sighted. I teach at a school where the majority of students are low-income. Their parents are not employed in positions where they can take off with such short notice. They are not in positions where they get paid time off. They are often paid hourly, and so they're either left scrambling to find childcare (a hassle, plus $$) or have to forego a day's worth of pay. Or leave their kids at home, unsupervised. None of which are good options.

It's just a really shitty position to put these parents in. [/quote]

In what public sphere are men expected to pony up, because of the children? I'm ambivalent about the march, but your line of thinking encapsulates the uphill battle teacher's ( and women in the work place) face. Women, and the jobs they have traditionally occcupied have been asked to make sacrifices for the good of the community that simply aren't asked of men. 
It's fine if you to think that you've accepted sacrifice as part of the job- low/stagnant pay, providing your own supplies, helping students everyday after school, being available to parents at all times, and all of the extra stuff you guys take on. 
But I wouldn't expect many younger people to follow suit. 
I hope that seeing all of the choices that young women have today is also a wake up call to older women, who have accepted the status quo. [/quote]
NP.

My husband is a doctor and things would not be pleasant (to say the least) if the majority of doctors decided they were going to take the day off for a protest/march. Unlikely they would ever do such a thing, but I digress.[/quote]
How many free house calls is your husband doing these days?[/quote]
My husband has never done a free house call. I'm a teacher, and nor have I. I have no idea what your point is. [/quote]

I wouldn't expect your husband to work for free. But you? You should be doing more. You've never gone above and beyond for your students? You've never stayed late to help a child in need? What a shabby teacher you must be!

Maybe you should read this...
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/opinion/sunday/sheryl-sandberg-and-adam-grant-on-women-doing-office-housework.html
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