Even in Denmark, children are career killers for working moms

Re:Even in Denmark, children are career killers for working ... by stcredzero on Monday February 05, 2018 @03:25PM (#16311794)

As long as only women can get pregnant, give birth, and breast feed, it turns out that choosing to make babies will (on average) be disproportionately more work for women than men.

Weirdly, there's still a household chore gap between men and women. My position on this is pretty well inline with John Green's: The pay gap is down to a single digit difference, but there is a difference in the unrenumerated work which goes into keeping society going in the context of raising children. (We might disagree on what to do about it.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it0EYBBl5LI

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Re:Even in Denmark, children are career killers for working ... by unremunerated on Monday February 05, 2018 @06:02PM (#16313064)

Dont know why you're being downvoted. Chore gap is a big issue in hetero-couple households (the majority), and chores and household caring/tending work _is_ a big support for capitalism which capitalism refuses to acknowledge (by refusing to remunerate it). But, capitalism still benefits from it. Guess who usually does this work? Clue: not men.

Most probably downvoted by men who refuse to acknowledge the value provided by unremunerated work to society.

> unrenumerated - you mean unremunerated, right?

(I'm what traditional/conservative society would call a "man")

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Re:Even in Denmark, children are career killers for working ... by unremunerated on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @02:04AM (#16314853)

Is the fact that my comment was so downvoted as to get flagged an example of men -majority of hn readers- refusing to acknowledge unremunerated work, and the fact that men are privileged from having to perform this unremunerated household work in our society?

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