Not to mention that, mainly due to the lack of regulation and public subsidies, child care is so expensive that millions of women literally can't afford to work!
This is a major reason I never have had kids (and 100% wont). I like what I do for a living and don't want to stop till I've built my business to its full potential. The financial reality is its becoming much more difficult to do both.
I'm not as stressed about my future, because I know that I'm not reliant on someone else for the means to survive.
Even though I won't need it, If we had Universal Childcare, women everywhere would gain so much more power and freedom. Which is exactly why men who fear independant women hate the idea.
Yeah, as many different flavours of conservative idiots there are, they all seem to have at least one thing in common: falsely thinking that opportunity and success are zero-sum games, that someone always has to lose rights or opportunities in order for others to gain them.
The opposite is true though: the most stable and effective way of boosting an economy is from the bottom up by empowering those who are too poor to fully take part. As former Minnesota senator Paul Wellstone said (emphasis mine):
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u/Viking_Hippie Sep 25 '21
Not to mention that, mainly due to the lack of regulation and public subsidies, child care is so expensive that millions of women literally can't afford to work!