Why 26% of U.S. women still choose not to work

PowerWisdomCourage · 2013-08-13T15:07:26+00:00

"Why aren't more women working?"

"Because we're not doing enough to cater to them."

I really couldn't have predicted that answer...

Aaod · 2013-08-13T16:42:59+00:00

Because work sucks? If you had the choice of someone willingly supporting you and society not judging you and you did not have to work would you still work or even work as many hours? Hell no.

To quote red Forman. "Work is work, you don't show up late, you don't make excuses, and you don't not work! If it wasn't work they wouldn't call it work. They would call it super wonderful crazy fun time, or dipity doo."

5th_Law_of_Robotics · 2013-08-13T15:21:16+00:00

That contrasts with Germany, where women qualify for 14 weeks of maternity leave at full pay, regardless of the size of their employer

Equal pay for equal . . . hmmm. . .

Any mandatory parental leave should be exactly equal between men and women. Otherwise you're establishing by law that women who work less than men are still entitled to the same pay rate.

King_Turnip · 2013-08-13T17:35:36+00:00

The reason women are staying out of the workforce is that we don't have Swedish-style maternity leave? 18 months paid leave, per child, guaranteed. Let's imagine that an average Swedish woman wants to have the same experience as my mother, and her mother, and my father's mother.

Two years out of college, she decides to have children. Three kids, roughly 2 years apart. With a year and a half of paid (by the employer) maternity leave per child, that means she's working a total of 9-12 months out of the 6 years she's being paid.

When she returns to work, she's been an employee for 8 years, but has actually accrued only 3 years of actual work experience, meaning that the men hired at the same time will be producing work of far superior caliber. Knowing the flavor of Swedish laws, it is likely also illegal to forgo promotions and raises based on that disparity.

If we had these laws, why would anyone ever hire a woman? Then roll out the quotas and discrimination suits....

DavidByron · 2013-08-13T15:25:11+00:00

Because they can.

Funcuz · 2013-08-13T17:34:09+00:00

Because they can.

Muffinizer1 · 2013-08-13T19:57:17+00:00

I live in a pretty well to do neighborhood. All of the women are doctors, PhDs etc, yet none of them work because their every need is catered to. Whatever they want I guess, its a bit of a waste.

HappyGerbil88 · 2013-08-14T03:23:16+00:00

New study finds that 26% of college students with rich parents don't work while in school! What can we do to cater to these individuals and stop oppressing them?

Seriously, they have the choice of working or not working, and they choose to not work. Men have the choice of working or... working. And they work. I think the bigger question is why men don't have the same privilege of taking time off from work to spend time with their children.

Everything_Is_Rape · 2013-08-13T19:49:21+00:00

forcing women to work is rape

2013-08-13T15:37:14+00:00

It's amazing that there exists a conversation in the MM about this, rather than the what we can do to keep men safe in the workplace.

Or, if we were to make it about women, as it always happens: Why don't women do dangerous work?

callthebankshot · 2013-08-13T15:06:36+00:00

Actually a really good article.. Paid maternity leave is a good thing.

Title	Why 26% of U.S. women still choose not to work
Author	PoliticalCry
Upvotes	23
Comments	41
Date	August 13, 2013 2:30 PM UTC (12 years ago)
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