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schizopost: Maintaining a high female employment rate in white collar labor is the end all be all of western governments, sufficiently big corporations are being blackmailed into not automating these tasks to prop it up. The SEC, IRS, and EEOC exist to make sure the government always has a hammer to drop.
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It’s probably just economic inefficiency.
Why?
If your reply is "because WIMMEN RULE THE WORLD and they force the government to go along and prop them up with bullshit jobs to be 'equal' to men" then I say you are mistaken.
It's economics. In order to grow the economy, business and government wanted a larger pool of workers. Here are all these stay-at-home women, get them into the workforce (and if that has the happy side-effect of depressing wages and reducing our labour costs well that's nice too). Social expectations shifted, helped along by feminism, that women who didn't go out to work were "wasting" their education and were somehow being parasitic on society. Economic expectations around two-income families meant that things like mortgages were calculated on the basis "both of you are earning, right?" Tax revenue is also based on "everyone who can work is working" and that includes working-age women. A lot of service industry jobs (and I'm including things like nursing and teaching here) are now female-dominated.
Economic necessity also means that women need jobs (no more staying at home being supported by parents if single).
Youi can try having "the man is the breadwinner, the women is the homemaker and child raiser" system back, but unless the guy is making very good money, it won't be economically feasible, and for low-income households, given government supports, the woman is probably better off being unmarried and raising the kid, with a live-in boyfriend or a boyfriend who lives elsewhere and just visits. Is that ideal? No. Is that what we've got now? Yes. Okay, take all the women out of the workforce, raise men's wages accordingly. And every cost-cutting management rule goes "so now we need cheap immigrant labour or automation instead".
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