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There has been no meaningful large-scale generational trend toward stay-at-home motherhood, they say. While women’s workforce participation did start to decline in 2000, interrupting decades of continual progress, this wasn’t because women chose joyfully to go home. Women left the workforce when the cost of child care ate up their entire after-tax salaries, or when family-unfriendly workplaces pushed them out. Or when, like women without children or men with and without children, they were laid off in a bad economy.
But these naysaying voices have been largely shouting in the wind. No one has really wanted to hear that the much-vaunted new “choices” weren’t really choices at all. No one’s been scouring obscure academic journals for the real skinny on women’s progress. No one’s been too eager to embrace grim facts over more-glorious fictions.
-"The Other Home Equity Crisis" by Judith Warner
I, for one, am always eager to embrace grim facts over more-glorious fictions.
But these naysaying voices have been largely shouting in the wind. No one has really wanted to hear that the much-vaunted new “choices” weren’t really choices at all. No one’s been scouring obscure academic journals for the real skinny on women’s progress. No one’s been too eager to embrace grim facts over more-glorious fictions.
-"The Other Home Equity Crisis" by Judith Warner
I, for one, am always eager to embrace grim facts over more-glorious fictions.