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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry, OP, but I don't feel bad.  This is a conscious choice you made, to give up your career and be supported by your husband, and you are now perceived as always putting career on the back burner.  PTSA and HOA simply don't translate to the real world.[/quote]

Is this advice you would say to your daughter?[/quote]
Actually, yes it is.[/quote]

Me too. And it's the advice my Mother gave me. Feminism is all about choices. You don't have to stay home or work and be confined to old stereotypes. But men and women should be treated equally. If a man stays home for years he can't get back in easily either. This isn't about feminism. This is about workplace dynamics. [/quote]

Same advice I'd give my DD. Doesn't mean you should never SAH -- but if you become a SAHM, go in with eyes wide open. You can't take 5+ years off until the kids go to kindergarten and expect to waltz back in to any professional position, let alone the professional position you had earlier.

And I agree it's not just a SAHM thing. I know several guys who have taken 5-7 yrs off to be stay home dads, and I can't say it's any easier getting back in; if anything, they also face the stigma of -- what kind of guy stays home with the kids?? [/quote]

Absolutely the same for guys, if not worse. Which is why the feminism straw man argument makes no sense. You take voluntary (recovering from cancer is not voluntary) time off, you pay the price.[/quote]

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