Personally, I don't think it's good for either parent to work 12 hour days. Men may be socialized to accept that as their duty, but I don't think it's good for their families.
And the article never says what the spouses of the lawyers did. I suspect that while the wives of the men stayed home with the kids, the husbands of the women did not make that career scarifice. That's not equity in my book. So the scenario "the mother does the childraising while the father does the career" does not apply to all these cases.
I think it's terribly unfair that "having it all" (i.e. family and career) for a woman is seen as par for the course for a man.
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Date: 2007-05-02 04:35 pm (UTC)And the article never says what the spouses of the lawyers did. I suspect that while the wives of the men stayed home with the kids, the husbands of the women did not make that career scarifice. That's not equity in my book. So the scenario "the mother does the childraising while the father does the career" does not apply to all these cases.
I think it's terribly unfair that "having it all" (i.e. family and career) for a woman is seen as par for the course for a man.