Feminism did a lot to stigmatize motherhood. "Stay at home mom" became a term of disparagement. You're basically a dumb loser and a miserable failure if you aren't a careerist woman (which is hilarious because such moms are typically much happier than those forced to earn wages or slave away in some toxic corporate environment). I think many more women would prefer to raise their children (which, btw, is a full time job and much more important than some job and for which jobs primarily exist in the first place) instead of pushing them onto some stranger who is payed to do their job for them and then go to work. And frankly, most jobs aren't something people would miss. Feminism of this kind is and always has been an upper middle phenomenon. There is little consideration for low income earners. You think most women are just dying to be wage earners? They do it because they have to. Low income mothers have always been working women, out of necessity, not some weird sense of ambition and needing to prove something. It's the middle and upper class mothers who could afford the privilege of staying at home. (Well, until now when even the upper middle class needs two income earners just to buy a house.)
Before someone possessed by the Zeitgeist clicks that downvote button, I will add that this isn't to say women should be banned from anything. You want a career, that's your business. Also, consider that besides raising children, there is plenty to do around the community that's probably more rewarding than a full blown career (even part time is stuff). However, I am saying that the social and cultural pressure, the NECESSITY, to be a careerist, and this means at the expense of your family which is sort of an afterthought, should be ridiculed and abolished. Girls should not be taught that their self-worth and happiness are to be found in a career. No one should. In this case it's making women miserable. Maybe as people begin to sacrifice some material comforts for the sake of a healthy family life, the market will begin to shift. After all, if you don't have that income rolling in any more and you're not keeping up with the Jones' likes some zombie, then the market will need to respond in turn.
(Also, please, no IVF. IVF is gravely immoral, especially given that you typically have to fertilize multiple eggs which are then are discarded or remain frozen.)
Before someone possessed by the Zeitgeist clicks that downvote button, I will add that this isn't to say women should be banned from anything. You want a career, that's your business. Also, consider that besides raising children, there is plenty to do around the community that's probably more rewarding than a full blown career (even part time is stuff). However, I am saying that the social and cultural pressure, the NECESSITY, to be a careerist, and this means at the expense of your family which is sort of an afterthought, should be ridiculed and abolished. Girls should not be taught that their self-worth and happiness are to be found in a career. No one should. In this case it's making women miserable. Maybe as people begin to sacrifice some material comforts for the sake of a healthy family life, the market will begin to shift. After all, if you don't have that income rolling in any more and you're not keeping up with the Jones' likes some zombie, then the market will need to respond in turn.
(Also, please, no IVF. IVF is gravely immoral, especially given that you typically have to fertilize multiple eggs which are then are discarded or remain frozen.)