What’s going on here? With all the
focus on equal pay for equal work, and with opportunities continuing to expand
for female employees, the exodus of women from our labor pool is surprising.
And, possibly, a tad inconvenient for those charging that businesses still
discriminate against women.
There are numerous explanations put
forth to explain this trend. Most tend to identify two categories of workplace
drop-outs: the first includes young mothers who are not highly educated and
therefore not likely to earn enough to pay for childcare. Economically, these
women are better off staying home.
The second (and more problematic) group
consists of highly educated women who drop out (or “opt-out”) when they have
children, even though they have the skills and income necessary to hire
childcare. This latter bunch has economists and feminists alarmed for different
reasons.
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I would say the main reason in both cases is both economic and "Quality of Life". In the first group they cannot afford child care so it makes sense that unless they can trade child care with a friend or relative they are not going to work at all.
In the second case of highly educated women it also makes sense why they would drop out of the workforce. They would be reading studies of the harm often done to young people when you send your children (especially before 5) to different child care providers. At all ages (especially before 5) little children are often just like little sponges. If you don't videotape exactly what is going on with your children through hidden video cameras in your home or through hidden video cameras on their person then you really don't have any real idea what your children are exposed to or whether they are being religiously, mentally, emotionally, or physically violated or harmed.
Even if you video what is going on you cannot likely know what whatever is going on is doing to your child in the way they perceive reality (not the way you and I perceive reality). So, you don't really understand what shocks or changes your children in various ways over time. Also, the food they are given or aren't given, the water or milk they are given or not given. The ability to use a bathroom or not or are they just left with poopy pants all day?
All these things including being teased or heckled for having poopy pants or wet pants also might debilitate your children. Life is tough but if you want something done right it is almost always better to do it yourself in all cases.
What’s
going on here? With all the focus on equal pay for equal work, and with
opportunities continuing to expand for female employees, the exodus of
women from our labor pool is surprising. And, possibly, a tad
inconvenient for those charging that businesses still discriminate
against women.
There are numerous explanations put forth to explain this trend. Most tend to identify two categories of workplace drop-outs: the first includes young mothers who are not highly educated and therefore not likely to earn enough to pay for childcare. Economically, these women are better off staying home.
The second (and more problematic) group consists of highly educated women who drop out (or “opt-out”) when they have children, even though they have the skills and income necessary to hire childcare. This latter bunch has economists and feminists alarmed for different reasons.
- See more at: http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2013/04/17/Why-Women-Are-Leaving-the-Workforce-in-Record-Numbers#sthash.n7TZycsz.dpuf
There are numerous explanations put forth to explain this trend. Most tend to identify two categories of workplace drop-outs: the first includes young mothers who are not highly educated and therefore not likely to earn enough to pay for childcare. Economically, these women are better off staying home.
The second (and more problematic) group consists of highly educated women who drop out (or “opt-out”) when they have children, even though they have the skills and income necessary to hire childcare. This latter bunch has economists and feminists alarmed for different reasons.
- See more at: http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2013/04/17/Why-Women-Are-Leaving-the-Workforce-in-Record-Numbers#sthash.n7TZycsz.dpuf
What’s
going on here? With all the focus on equal pay for equal work, and with
opportunities continuing to expand for female employees, the exodus of
women from our labor pool is surprising. And, possibly, a tad
inconvenient for those charging that businesses still discriminate
against women.
There are numerous explanations put forth to explain this trend. Most tend to identify two categories of workplace drop-outs: the first includes young mothers who are not highly educated and therefore not likely to earn enough to pay for childcare. Economically, these women are better off staying home.
The second (and more problematic) group consists of highly educated women who drop out (or “opt-out”) when they have children, even though they have the skills and income necessary to hire childcare. This latter bunch has economists and feminists alarmed for different reasons.
- See more at: http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2013/04/17/Why-Women-Are-Leaving-the-Workforce-in-Record-Numbers#sthash.n7TZycsz.dpuf
There are numerous explanations put forth to explain this trend. Most tend to identify two categories of workplace drop-outs: the first includes young mothers who are not highly educated and therefore not likely to earn enough to pay for childcare. Economically, these women are better off staying home.
The second (and more problematic) group consists of highly educated women who drop out (or “opt-out”) when they have children, even though they have the skills and income necessary to hire childcare. This latter bunch has economists and feminists alarmed for different reasons.
- See more at: http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2013/04/17/Why-Women-Are-Leaving-the-Workforce-in-Record-Numbers#sthash.n7TZycsz.dpuf
What’s
going on here? With all the focus on equal pay for equal work, and with
opportunities continuing to expand for female employees, the exodus of
women from our labor pool is surprising. And, possibly, a tad
inconvenient for those charging that businesses still discriminate
against women.
There are numerous explanations put forth to explain this trend. Most tend to identify two categories of workplace drop-outs: the first includes young mothers who are not highly educated and therefore not likely to earn enough to pay for childcare. Economically, these women are better off staying home.
The second (and more problematic) group consists of highly educated women who drop out (or “opt-out”) when they have children, even though they have the skills and income necessary to hire childcare. This latter bunch has economists and feminists alarmed for different reasons.
- See more at: http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2013/04/17/Why-Women-Are-Leaving-the-Workforce-in-Record-Numbers#sthash.n7TZycsz.dpuf
There are numerous explanations put forth to explain this trend. Most tend to identify two categories of workplace drop-outs: the first includes young mothers who are not highly educated and therefore not likely to earn enough to pay for childcare. Economically, these women are better off staying home.
The second (and more problematic) group consists of highly educated women who drop out (or “opt-out”) when they have children, even though they have the skills and income necessary to hire childcare. This latter bunch has economists and feminists alarmed for different reasons.
- See more at: http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2013/04/17/Why-Women-Are-Leaving-the-Workforce-in-Record-Numbers#sthash.n7TZycsz.dpuf
jjjWhat’s
going on here? With all the focus on equal pay for equal work, and with
opportunities continuing to expand for female employees, the exodus of
women from our labor pool is surprising. And, possibly, a tad
inconvenient for those charging that businesses still discriminate
against women.
There are numerous explanations put forth to explain this trend. Most tend to identify two categories of workplace drop-outs: the first includes young mothers who are not highly educated and therefore not likely to earn enough to pay for childcare. Economically, these women are better off staying home.
The second (and more problematic) group consists of highly educated women who drop out (or “opt-out”) when they have children, even though they have the skills and income necessary to hire childcare. This latter bunch has economists and feminists alarmed for different reasons.
- See more at: http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2013/04/17/Why-Women-Are-Leaving-the-Workforce-in-Record-Numbers#sthash.n7TZycsz.dpuf
There are numerous explanations put forth to explain this trend. Most tend to identify two categories of workplace drop-outs: the first includes young mothers who are not highly educated and therefore not likely to earn enough to pay for childcare. Economically, these women are better off staying home.
The second (and more problematic) group consists of highly educated women who drop out (or “opt-out”) when they have children, even though they have the skills and income necessary to hire childcare. This latter bunch has economists and feminists alarmed for different reasons.
- See more at: http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2013/04/17/Why-Women-Are-Leaving-the-Workforce-in-Record-Numbers#sthash.n7TZycsz.dpuf
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