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Capitalising babies : Comments
By Helen Lobato, published 24/11/2008All the 'mother wars' regarding paid work and stay at home mothers avoid discussing the new capitalism.
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Men would love a wonderful work-life balance... But for the same reasons that the 2nd wave feminists complained about women's choices being restricted, men don't have the choices you assume they have.
As our new-ish 'sex discrimination Commissioner', Broderick, recently said in the media. She was surprised how many men hate their work, and only work because they feel they have no choice. Men are not caught in a guilded cage... somebody forgot the guilding.
Some poor bugger has to pay the mortgage and deal with the household finances - a couple go from being DINKS, to being one-income, multiple dependants when they have children... and society expects dad to put in the long hours to make it work.
Any wonder men are commitment-phobic... they just don't see the benefit.
The only difference between men today and women in 1960, is that women had the support of the mainstream... every politician knows that supporting women and kissing babies is a vote-winner.
Feminists never faced entrenched opposition to women's pressure.
Today, there is an entrenched, very powerful cohort of grey-haired 2nd Wave feminists, controlling huge departments and budgets, who have studied Marx, they know about power, and consequently they are deeply antagonistic to men receiving a cent in funding.
"the massive increase in female workforce participation rates from about 1960 onwards" This is actually a furfy. The proportion of women working full-time has not changed in 40 years! (ABS) Yes, more women are working part-time,
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