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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lovely post, OP. Not sure why everyone is deliberately missing the point of it. I read the OP as saying that she is happy to work because she recognizes the privilege of being able to work. I think the perspective she is intending to bring to the SAHM/WOHM debate is that there are people who cannot choose. You may say that here in the US there are also people who cannot choose, they have to WOHM. I believe that the OP said this was also true of lower income people in Pakistan. But for middle class/upper middle class/upper class people, in the US, there is a choice. In Pakistan, there is not. That is the point that is being made. I think it is interesting. [/quote]

There is choice! Pakistani society is very diverse depending on your economic structure, and there are all kind of choices avaiable or not, just like any other country. [/quote]

This. As a Pakistani (married to an Indian) I can tell you that professional women in those countries have far more support than working women in America. They outnumber men in colleges and grad schools and when they work they have domestic help as well as relatives who can carry the load at home. In fact, an Indian friend of mine in New York is an investment banker and her mother (a very successful executive with a multinational in India) retired and moved to NYC when my friend had her first baby so that she could oversee her daughter's home and the care of her child. It's a perfect set up -- the daughter is enjoying a flourishing career and the mother has just retired from one and is consulting now so she can still flex her intellectual muscles.

AND let me remind you: India, Pakistan and Bangladesh have ALL had female heads of state and look what heck we are giving to a woman trying to become ours.

I don't know whether I feel fury at or pity for the "OP".[/quote]

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