Obviously it's a problem for men to have to compete for jobs against women. After all, there are so MANY women, and now they are all going to college, and dang it if they aren't doing well. That must be annoying.
Sure, families suffer, because men aren't terribly interested in picking up the slack at home left by their working wives, and children wind up (often) in substandard care, because this country sucks at providing child care.
What to do?
Well, I don't see women wanting to go back to picking up the house and raising the kids even if they could afford to. Oh sure, some idealists will give up lucrative careers to do it, but most won't. So what do we do? Workarounds, imo. We need to train boys to do more in the home, and make sure they expect to do more. We need to disabuse them of the notion that all that classic literature they read, that may reflect women in "traditional" roles, does not reflect the women of today. The Beaver's mom is no longer available (or ever alive, I think- but maybe I have prematurely killed her, however she's very old, and probably not looking for husbands).
We need good school site daycare- to try to give kids intellectual stimulation, and good physical activities, to eliminate the patchiness of truly bad daycare. I don't know what we do about infants. Women are leaving their infants so early, and they just don't get the stimulation in day care that a mom would give. But what can you do? Women don't want to be second class citizens. I can't say I blame them. Men set the system up to make women second class- it's no wonder that once civilization got a bit more civilized, and women got educated, they realized it, and weren't as interested in playing along. When you free a captive people, they aren't always all that grateful to the folks who kept them in bondage. It's sad for men, but there you are. Sometimes the sins of the fathers are visited on the sons. I'm sorry for America's kids, of course, but there are ways to work around women in the labor force. |
