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It is not that I don't need to question gender stereotypes. What I really question though is the compulsion to systematically question preconstructed roles. Let us stop and think a bit before demanding companies to address gender discrepancies only based on number monitoring.
Women doing housework or child care taking can also be because women are much better at it. Your reasoning leads to putting cleaning ladies to carry and empty bins, just because you want to enforce egalitarianism at all cost. They should be given the possibility, but not pushed into it by quota laws and feminist activist discourse, which is just another kind of that societal pressure you denounce.
Like I said, most professions value involvement and dedication. Companies and managers are thus not discriminating per se, but acting in accordance to their business interest, which is just as valid for the society. I agree one should not take precedence over the other and push the other side behind a glass wall.
Difference in pay is a consequence of involvement. Period. If a woman involves more than I, I am all for her earning more. Pay should be function of competence, involvement and responsibility, not social engineering. You should not mix this with what happens on personal and family level. You can work so that both spouses support the other (by "educating" them) but not force "equality" by law. Like I said, it works perfectly for the ecological stuff. Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! (Martin Luther King)
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