True

@magpieluvseeds
Sadly true
Many women actually get punished by "the market" when they choose a different path than the "norm".
I remember my American co-workers making fun of my friend in Sweden who took a year off work to be at home with their special need daughter, while his wife stayed at work.
The other way would have been perfectly normal, and set back the woman's carrier.
Coming from Iran, I can't understand that so many men in 21st century live by the mindset of cavemen.
@faab64 @magpieluvseeds Many men get punished, as per your example, and plenty companies frown upon men taking parental leave.
In Norway you get scolded if you don't share it 50/50. You are supposed to be done with meetings early enough so dad can pick up the kids from kindergarten. As a dad, you are supposed to do your fair share.
I might do a bit more (we don't count so I might be a slacking off idiot, though my wife would tell me), I have reduced my hours, my wife is paid better than I am...
I canβt believe thereβre women in 2026 willing to enslave themselves through dependence.
What happens when he decides that he is into someone else and leaves them with no money and no work experience to fall back on?
@faab64 mh. I'm not sure. women got paid job in addition to their unpaid work as an independancy (from their husband) demand.
But "workforce reproduction" tasks are still unpaid, yet still mostly done by women. And now, they must have them done after an underpaid job shift.
@faab64
Part of the reason women didn't get paid was because women couldn't vote. Women had to depend on others to make fair laws. Took over 70 years of organized work to get the vote and representation in government.
Now, womens vote is under threat again.
@faab64 the revisionism is insane
so many people glorify a past that never was. They just imagine that back then everything was swell and now woman "have to" work.
You know who might disagree? the woman of that time. the brave woman who fought tooth and nail for womans rights. It wasn't going swell.
In the last few centuries in europe everyone who was able (this includes children regardless of gender) had to perform hard labour every day for survival
@saxnot
The biggest revisionism in the western world is the complete erasure of socialist movement from 19th century that brought the issues of equality between genders, child labor, voting rights and so many other rights we all enjoy and take for granted.
You can barely find a single American who have heard of Rosa Luxemburg. You won't find any person admitting that women received right to vote in Soviet union in 1917 compared to 1944 in France. And all Nordic countries with strong socialist, social democratic movement had this passed years before others.
The "socialist feminism" is defined as an American movement from the 1970s which makes me realize how strongly and well the propaganda affected, even the "progressives" in the west.