The Opt-Out Myth

if journalism repeatedly frames the wrong problem, then the folks who make public policy may very well deliver the wrong solution. If women are happily choosing to stay home with their babies, that's a private decision. But it's a public policy issue if most women (and men) need to work to support their families, and if the economy needs women's skills to remain competitive. It's a public policy issue if schools, jobs, and other American institutions are ... Full Story »

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Rebecca Hale
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by Rebecca Hale - Oct. 1, 2008

This research has depth and tracks research following "women's issues" for a number of recent years. The most important point I take away from the article/research, and also other reviews, is that the story is not just about women, or white women, or wealthy women, or women with husbands and options. It affects the entire economy. which includes fathers, other children, neighbors, employers. I know that different women are called in different strengths, for vocation and lifestyle. at different times of life. But it is annoying to have a shopping-centered, franctically-busy lifestyle touted as a reward. To me that always seemed like more of a punishment.

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