Vancouver tech surges as U.S. immigration reform idles

Re:Vancouver tech surges as U.S. immigration reform idles by Xylakant on Monday August 11, 2014 @06:35AM (#8162737)

What if the spouse does not want to raise children but rather would prefer to work. What if the partners would prefer to both raise the children and both work less? "Just go raise some children" just promotes the gender inequality that people have been trying to fix for ages.

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Re:Vancouver tech surges as U.S. immigration reform idles by mediocrejoker on Monday August 11, 2014 @09:12AM (#8163094)

Are you assuming BrainInAJar is a man and the mentioned spouse is his wife, and not vice versa?

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Re:Vancouver tech surges as U.S. immigration reform idles by Xylakant on Monday August 11, 2014 @09:48AM (#8163210)

I'm not assuming anything: It's the same response both ways round. It should be the couples decision on how to organize their life and their child-rearing duties.

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Re:Vancouver tech surges as U.S. immigration reform idles by seanflyon on Monday August 11, 2014 @04:11PM (#8165003)

I agree with your general sentiment, but either you were assuming that the husband was working and the wife staying home, or your statement "just promotes the gender inequality" makes no sense.

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Re:Vancouver tech surges as U.S. immigration reform idles by Xylakant on Monday August 11, 2014 @04:32PM (#8165123)

No, gender equality is if both sides can choose to pursue a career. Just flipping that around and defaulting to "male partner cannot work because he has to raise some kids" is inequal as well. In any case, that already assumes it's a male-female couple.

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Re:Vancouver tech surges as U.S. immigration reform idles by seanflyon on Monday August 11, 2014 @04:43PM (#8165176)

You know what does not involve any gender stereotypes? One partner working and the other staying home with the kids. You don't need to flip it around and default to the male staying home. Many couples choose this for perfectly good reasons.

Like I said before, I agree with you general sentiment that the couple should be able to make that decision.

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