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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I never jump into these stupid debates and did not read the prior posts, but for this one I have to, because the OP betrays the total ignorance about history, women's rights, and the role of women in society.

It is not just about what you, Cindy Lou, decide to do with your career once you have kids.  It's about the bigger picture, and the fact that when women are not able to, for various reasons, combine career with family, or when we collectively as a society start to spin a narrative that children are hurt when women work, then women feel pressured to drop out, or guilted into dropping out, or forced into it, and then women (and children) suffer the consequences, for example:

-when you have only male OB/GYNs who force you into c-sections and many other procedures because of a lack of understanding or care for what women face 
-when there is less money given in the budget process of government to education, or protection for families, because men typically value these things less 
-- when you get no paid maternity leave because CEOs are all men and so are the legislators 
-- when scientists run studies only on male subjects because they assume women are the same
-- when rape kids go untouched because it's simply not a priority for police departments (mostly male)
-when you have no access to birth control because male legislators don't value it

I could go on and on.  All of the above is part of our history and was part of our reality for hundreds/thousands of years.  This is why women have fought to be in the workplace.  So when SAHMs start talking about "who cares when women aren't part of the workforce," well that is just completely stupid. [/quote]

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