I actually find khfreek's opinion of women in the workforce extremely sexist, but for the sake of argument I'll leave my personal feelings about his statements out of it.
My main opposition has to do with the fact that you take offense to a woman continuing her career when she has a child. I agree that if you do undertake to have a child, you SHOULD be able to devote enough time to raising them, and I also think that a child should not be brought up with nannies and day care never knowing their parents.
Take a look at that last word. Notice I said parents. Plural. A man has JUST AS MUCH responsibility for how his child is raised as the mother of the child does. A woman should not have to quit her career, and put her personal ambitions on the shelf when a child is born simply because she's got the plumbing to feed the kid for the first stages of it's life. There's a lovely little invention called a breast pump. Through that magic, a child can get the nutrition of breast milk without the actual tit. Wonderful invention for a man to be able to spend time taking care of HIS child no?
You seem to have forgotten also that women have other reasons to work aside from financial need. Not once did you mention the possibility of a woman not wanting to sacrifice her career for the sake of being there for her kid 100% of the time. From a personal standpoint, my career is my life right now. I have many, MANY interests outside of it, but for the moment, it is my number one priority. I don't plan on having kids for another 15 years or so at least, but I can see a distant possibility. If and when I do have kids, I know that I will never stop working in some capacity, because I absolutely love what I do. It's a huge source of enjoyment and fulfillment to me, and to suggest that the only reason women need careers is to fill in the financial gaps that their husbands obviously more important careers have left is insulting.
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