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Re:Why Child Care Is So Expensive by the_watcher on Monday December 09, 2019 @02:41PM (#21745690)
> The dirty secret is that most women work because they HAVE TO. It's not a choice. If you can have a house, nice car, four kids, vacation home, 40 hour week, no credit card debt, no school debt, and all of that on carpenter salary -- why not to enjoy life instead of spending 50-60 hours at the office?

I think you can replace "women" with people and make this statement more accurate. I don't see why this would be unique to women, whether you agree or disagree with the "people work because they have to, not want to" statement.

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Re:Why Child Care Is So Expensive by ouid on Monday December 09, 2019 @02:57PM (#21745849)
That too is an undergeneralization. People work because they want to just like they breathe because they want to. Claiming that there is some sort of innate desire to work or not work is ludicrous.
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Re:Why Child Care Is So Expensive by the_watcher on Monday December 09, 2019 @04:48PM (#21746985)
That's a separate point from "women work because they have to". Regardless of your POV on whether or not most people work out of necessity rather than desire, I don't see any reason to believe any differences here attributable to gender.
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