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Re:New York Times Tech Workers Go on Strike by slt2021 on Monday November 04, 2024 @09:29PM (#42048097)
each family makes their own decision how to split responsibilities at home. Its possible that men take care of children, while women work more.

my position is each wife's gender gap is compensated by husband's gender gap, and on balance it all comes down to individual choices, division of labor at household level.

Using motherhood as a wedge issue between genders is an artificial issue that ignores incomes and choices at the household level.

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Re:New York Times Tech Workers Go on Strike by ceejayoz on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @06:18AM (#42050589)
> my position is each wife's gender gap is compensated by husband's gender gap

Time to turn off the “Leave it to Beaver” reruns, I think.

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Re:New York Times Tech Workers Go on Strike by BehindBlueEyes on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @01:28AM (#42057552)
It seems logical that if either partner has to stop working for childcare, whichever partner earns the most keeps their job, unfortunately that just creates a feedback loop where gender gap means women are more likely to tale on child care, which in turn is used to justify the gender gap.

I don't think there is any real agency there. That said I also don't think parenthood is the root of the issue.

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