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Re:The data are clear: The boys are not all right by dan-robertson on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @06:05PM (#30279992)
To what extent is this just people not liking their current job? That is, what percentage of homemakers would rather be employed, and how would the opinions of employed women change if their choices in the poll were current job/appealing alternative job/homemaker?
Re:The data are clear: The boys are not all right by scarmig on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @06:30PM (#30280287)
Women generally report more job satisfaction than men do; you'd expect a higher proportion of men preferring homemaking to their jobs if that was the dominant factor.
Re:The data are clear: The boys are not all right by rayiner on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @06:32PM (#30280303)
I suspect it’s a sliding scale—working is probably relatively more compelling if you’re a cancer researcher than if you’re writing up the paperwork for home mortgages. But way more people do the latter than the former, right? And most people doing the latter aren’t qualified to do the former (and that’s okay).

I think that often people with remunerative, intellectually stimulating jobs overlook the perspective of women who have (and are realistically only qualified to have) jobs we would probably regard as more mundane.