Why should we value wage equality between the sexes? Why is this a problem? Especially if it’s not created by discrimination. If women are choosing to work less to be home to be with their children, why is that bad? Men and women aren’t in competition with each other. Most women will marry a man and they will share income. And if there’s only a wage gap when children come and we live in an idealized version of society where all children are born within marriage, and the man is working to support the family while the woman stays home with the children, where is the problem? If we lived in a dream world where we were all 10x richer, and no one had any social or financial or legal pressure regarding the decision to get married, have children, education and career, we would likely see an increased gender wage gap. Most young women say what they really want in life is to get married and have children. For many a career is just a means to money and not fulfilling in itself. Once a woman has a baby they are usually so attached to that baby they never want to leave them. So many cry and can’t handle their first day back at work and quit their jobs. Many feel like they can’t afford to quit and struggle through and are miserable. We should be asking ourselves how we can have a society where more women can make the choice to have all the children they want and be able to stay home with them without worry about money. Women are having fewer children than they desire, often delaying because they can’t afford it and then discovering they have infertility. Or maybe they don’t have infertility but they wait until they’re 35 and only have time for 2 kids if they’re lucky. Most people don’t want to go to work every day. They do it because they’re getting paid to be there.
This snuck premise tricks people into accepting that women should be working. That it’s somehow morally good for women to work to create equality. But the proposed solution of women being pushed into college and career, and pushed to have fewer children later if they must and to stay on the workforce no matter what, encouraging birth control and abortions, taxing everyone to pay for daycare. This leads to separating women from their children, increasing divorces and mental illness in everyone, and raising lonely children who are suicidal. Why are we going against our nature and making ourselves miserable to try to achieve equality? It actually ends up with working moms pulling a double shift and being over-worked because we all know men are never going to do house work. They would rather be single and jerk off to porn and never have kids than clean. So it’s actually causing a gender imbalance between the genders within marriages, leading to resentment and unhappiness.
Our goal shouldn’t be equality. Our goal should be to raise at least 2.1 children per mother (the replacement fertility rate) who are happy, healthy, contributing members of society. And putting them in daycare at 6 weeks so mom can work is not going to further that goal.
Deberías hacer una versión en idioma español. Ya se que tengo que estudiar el idioma de los hijos del Reino Unido pero mientras tanto, un poquito de por favor, haces una versión en español, pero en plan mejorando la presente, es decir, los digitales anglosajones por no decir el New York Times, tienen una versión en español con contenidos digamos que, mediocres. Entonces en la de EE.UU aparece Paul Auster, en la nuestra nos ofrecen a Martín Caparros que seguro que es un gran escritor pero como que sus temas me resultan menos interesantes que los de Auster.
Entonces te pido, ruego, suplico, una versión en español de todo esto, pero mejorada (si es posible, cosa que será difícil, porque están muy bien tus notas). Hacerle como la versión del director de la película. Aunque quede más largo. No me importa.
Te descubrí escuchando el Podcast de 2 Tipos de Cambio. Creo que me abres un mundo desconocido. Si pudiera, te financiaría la conversión al idioma tan pero tan importante que luego encuentras manuales de instalación de cosas en italiano, francés, por supuesto inglés, pero no están en español.
Great post Maia! I am curious about the role in preferences here -- theoretically we could lower the wage gap significantly by investing in free child care (rather than tax credits), but from my personal experience (mom, sister, relationships, etc.) most women value spending time with their children more than their lost wages.
Why should we value wage equality between the sexes? Why is this a problem? Especially if it’s not created by discrimination. If women are choosing to work less to be home to be with their children, why is that bad? Men and women aren’t in competition with each other. Most women will marry a man and they will share income. And if there’s only a wage gap when children come and we live in an idealized version of society where all children are born within marriage, and the man is working to support the family while the woman stays home with the children, where is the problem? If we lived in a dream world where we were all 10x richer, and no one had any social or financial or legal pressure regarding the decision to get married, have children, education and career, we would likely see an increased gender wage gap. Most young women say what they really want in life is to get married and have children. For many a career is just a means to money and not fulfilling in itself. Once a woman has a baby they are usually so attached to that baby they never want to leave them. So many cry and can’t handle their first day back at work and quit their jobs. Many feel like they can’t afford to quit and struggle through and are miserable. We should be asking ourselves how we can have a society where more women can make the choice to have all the children they want and be able to stay home with them without worry about money. Women are having fewer children than they desire, often delaying because they can’t afford it and then discovering they have infertility. Or maybe they don’t have infertility but they wait until they’re 35 and only have time for 2 kids if they’re lucky. Most people don’t want to go to work every day. They do it because they’re getting paid to be there.
This snuck premise tricks people into accepting that women should be working. That it’s somehow morally good for women to work to create equality. But the proposed solution of women being pushed into college and career, and pushed to have fewer children later if they must and to stay on the workforce no matter what, encouraging birth control and abortions, taxing everyone to pay for daycare. This leads to separating women from their children, increasing divorces and mental illness in everyone, and raising lonely children who are suicidal. Why are we going against our nature and making ourselves miserable to try to achieve equality? It actually ends up with working moms pulling a double shift and being over-worked because we all know men are never going to do house work. They would rather be single and jerk off to porn and never have kids than clean. So it’s actually causing a gender imbalance between the genders within marriages, leading to resentment and unhappiness.
Our goal shouldn’t be equality. Our goal should be to raise at least 2.1 children per mother (the replacement fertility rate) who are happy, healthy, contributing members of society. And putting them in daycare at 6 weeks so mom can work is not going to further that goal.
the word is length.
Deberías hacer una versión en idioma español. Ya se que tengo que estudiar el idioma de los hijos del Reino Unido pero mientras tanto, un poquito de por favor, haces una versión en español, pero en plan mejorando la presente, es decir, los digitales anglosajones por no decir el New York Times, tienen una versión en español con contenidos digamos que, mediocres. Entonces en la de EE.UU aparece Paul Auster, en la nuestra nos ofrecen a Martín Caparros que seguro que es un gran escritor pero como que sus temas me resultan menos interesantes que los de Auster.
Entonces te pido, ruego, suplico, una versión en español de todo esto, pero mejorada (si es posible, cosa que será difícil, porque están muy bien tus notas). Hacerle como la versión del director de la película. Aunque quede más largo. No me importa.
Te descubrí escuchando el Podcast de 2 Tipos de Cambio. Creo que me abres un mundo desconocido. Si pudiera, te financiaría la conversión al idioma tan pero tan importante que luego encuentras manuales de instalación de cosas en italiano, francés, por supuesto inglés, pero no están en español.
Dios te de salud y a mi no me olvide.
Vale.
Great post Maia! I am curious about the role in preferences here -- theoretically we could lower the wage gap significantly by investing in free child care (rather than tax credits), but from my personal experience (mom, sister, relationships, etc.) most women value spending time with their children more than their lost wages.
I'm confused, is this your statement?
It is pretty funny that Walsh, a virulently transphobic reactionary,