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Originally Posted by GGG
This is not true a women, if they choose to can take off work 2 weeks before the baby is due and would be able to be back at work 6 weeks later or earlier. Physicaly they would be capable. Now what they need is a man to take Paternaty leave for 6 months as EI allows and then be a stay at home dad. But wait stay at home dad isn't a career choice men are allowed to have becauase then they would be lazy and unsuccessful and therefore unalbe to find a wife.
See menanism hasn't come far enough yet for feminism to be fully successful. It is not socially exceptable for men to be stay at home dads. Just look at all of the posts on the thread the underlying assumption is that the women must raise the child.
So I would tell the feminist in this article to suck it up and make a choice just like everyone else being a women doesn't make you special. If you want a career have it if you want to be a stay at home mom do it. If you want both find a balance that you can live with and don't complain that you have choice.
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To the bolded part... nice assumption. That's all it is though.
You missed my point.
If a woman wants a child, they HAVE to put their career on hold. There is no other choice. We can all pay lip service to labour laws that supposedly equalize things, but the dynamics of the business world just don't bend easily to handle this situation. It has nothing to do with sexism either, it's simply the nature of things.
As was pointed out above, it's tough for a business to handle women getting pregnant, especially if they are understaffed or if the woman is in a key position.
A man doesn't have that problem.
In order for a woman to be successful in the workplace, they need to have a rather large set of met conditions including a man who can stay at home or enough wealth to support day care for at least a decade. It's more work then what a Man needs.
Feminism isn't at fault here. It's given women relative equality and a choice in their life.
And yes, it is socially acceptable for a man to be a stay at home dad.