If child care costs more than you earn, that’s not a choice. If your kid has special needs yet your work has no flexibility, that’s not a choice. If you have no paid leave or unpredictable hours, that’s not a choice. (And when is it ever a man’s “choice”?)https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/upshot/mothers-choices-work-family.html …
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I learned that this idea started with Reagan, and the notion that it was the full responsibility of parents, not the state, to invest in children — and thus it was parents’ fault if their individual plans didn’t work outhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/upshot/mothers-choices-work-family.html …
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@JoanCWilliams wrote this 3 decades ago: “This insistent focus on the ‘choices’ of individual actors deflects attention from the truly stunning consistency with which it ‘happens’ to be wives who ‘choose’ careers that ‘accommodate their children’s needs.’”Prikaži ovu nit
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It’s cool that you are such a thought leader on this discussion. I read it aloud to Phil and James :))
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This article makes me appreciate *just* how hard it was for my proud middle-class FT working mom w/3 kids in the 80s-90s. It’s hard for me, but in a VERY different way than it was for my mom. So many thoughts/feelings, such a great article. Thx
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I also really liked the close, "Preferences are shaped by policy, culture, the workplace and the realities of daily life. The question is how women’s choices might change if their options were different." Grateful to live in Canada with leave policies etc, but still applies!
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Now I'm (a small digression from what I'm actually writing about) briefly obsessing over Madeleine L'Engle's decision to have Meg Murry become a full-time homemaker of seven kids who uses her extraordinary math skills to bolster her husband's scientific research.
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I understand that the editorial board and the newsroom are totally separate and yada yada yada, but do either read their own publication?
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Hi..i offer to edit and mix the podcasts audio files for the best quality and standard broadcast level before upload..
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