Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19

Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by xnyan on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @06:09PM (#24414125)

>Since divorce became acceptable, it became a huge liability for women to exit the workforce and permanently

You're mixing up cause and effect. A married women trying to resume her career (which also happens for many other reasons in addition to divorce)is going to have the same problems as a women who is trying to resume her career due to a divorce.

Or historical/current practices and attitudes to relationships and child rearing is what created the liability, specifically the societal pressure for women to leave/not pursue a career and thus lose highly valuable work experience relative to men. Divorce just highlights this.

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Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by rayiner on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @06:36PM (#24414406)

But a woman who risks divorce has a greater need to return to the workforce than a similarly situated woman who stays married. The normalization of divorce exacerbated the risks from exiting the workforce.

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Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by xnyan on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @08:19PM (#24415239)

You’re still doing it. Anyone of any gender who ends their professional career to start a family is put at greater risk by more prevalent divorce, right?

Shitty sexist traditional societal practices exacerbated the risk of exiting the workforce for women. The fact that women are more vulnerable to all kinds of life conditions such as divorce is a simply a consequence of that.

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