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Child care has emerged as an important issue for both employers and employees in recent decades. Indeed, a mid-1990s U.S. Department of Labor study observed that, during that period, "America has become a society in which everyone is expected to workincluding women with young children. But many of society's institutions were designed during an era of male breadwinners and female homemakers
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I think you'll find that the push by society for things like child care and women working is often partly due to labour shortages. If you look at the post World War 2 era when men returned from the war, women were pushed out of paid work into the home as women were seen as taking jobs away from men. Until men are encouraged to take on 50% of domestic duties, including child care, instead of just 'helping', the assumption of men as breadwinners and women's primary place is in the home will prevail. While I see huge droves of women taking on a double workload of both paid employment and unpaid domestic work (perhaps triple, if you add aged care), I don't see the trend equalled by men doing the same - yet.
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