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Originally Posted by Clarkey
I wrote this:
"A major reason why women don't make it as high in the workplace is voluntary absences to have children and raise them. Any man that takes off numerous years to raise his children would not climb up the corporate ladder as high as he would if he just worked the whole time."
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I agree with you on this; at a starting position, women are perceived to have slightly more risk of leaving than men, and so they aren't worth as much of an investment. But once a woman is started on a lower salary path, it becomes very difficult to remove that precident, even once she's gone past any likelihood of leaving to have children.
But in households where the woman is the primary bread winner, I'd wager that women tend to have fewer children, take shorter maternity leaves, and have the man as the main caregiver in the household.