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    3 days ago

    While true, there is other issues with gender inequality in Eastern Europe like relatively higher domestic violence towards women and legislature to enable it in countries like Russia.

    Inequality is a complex issue and needs to be looked at holistically. I have a feeling that often there is a focus on work and “career” although later seems to be mostly measured in some women who made it to C-levels. In that sense it remains an issue of women being supposed to “function” in a narrow line, rather than the system as a whole being questioned.

    More women working full time is sold as a success of emancipation, despite it meaning more work overall for women who have children as some care work is difficult to delegate. At the same time it is a massive loss, that a lot of “life goals” like owning your own home require two full time income or just aren’t reachable any more despite higher education levels.

    When it comes to single parents, poverty becomes a strong problem and it helps enable abusive relationships as people are economically compelled to stay with an abusive partner. This issue moved on from the stay at home wives to women working full time too.

    More income and less working hours are needed generally, and should help emancipation of women even more. In the eyes of capitalists that would be a grave “malfunction”.