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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Women are not buying into a system that hates them and sets them up to fail.[/quote]

+1million.

And the pundits can crunch as much data and throw all the statistics at this that they want but until men address this (below) - women aren't going to be interested.

[quote]"Many of the men Katie met, she said, either seemed turned off by her ambition or weren’t career-oriented enough for her. She felt discouraged by just how many of her male friends similarly said they expect their future wives to prioritize their families over their jobs."

"Jones, who identifies as politically moderate, thinks couples with kids should split household and child care responsibilities equally. She was surprised by just how few of the men she has encountered in D.C. share this view."

"[S]he broke up with her boyfriend, with whom she shares a 5-year-old son, over a year ago because she was tired of doing most of the child care, cooking and scheduling while also earning almost double her boyfriend’s salary."
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I do worry about the backlash against women, which is already well underway. Men aren't going to want to change. They are going to want to force women back into dependency.
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