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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And we do need to overcome the fact that many professional women have simply internalized the attitudes of professional men in demeaning the work of childcare and housework as unimportant compared to their jobs.[/quote]

+1000

I teach high school. My work is valued as a middle class profession as our society has deemed it valuable to teach adolescents things. But despite paying as much as my mortgage for daycare, my 3 year olds teacher makes much much less.

That sucks. [/quote]

There is a weird motivation for keeping the pay of daycare workers, nannies, and preschool teachers low -- if the cost of childcare exceeds the mother's salary, there is more pressure for her to stay home. So inexpensive childcare is necessary for women to be able to work.

Other countries handle this by greatly subsidizing childcare. In the US we don't, which means that if we want childcare costs to stay lower than pay for the average woman, then we have to continue to pay childcare workers less.[/quote]

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