President Obama signs equal pay law

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

Wanting to work part time, be a stay at home mommy should have no bearing on the millions of women who work full time in this country. Considering that child bearing years only apply to a very specific part of the years a woman can work and that the vast majority of women do not have more than 2 children, using the likelihood that a worker may become pregnant as a reason to pay every woman in the US less than her male counterparts is RIDICULOUS! My husband would LOVE to be a stay at home house husband...I already support our family. Should men get paid less because some men decide not to work? Shoot, my husband has an MD with advanced fellowship training at Hopkins...if you want to talk about wasted education, he's an excellent example!!

I love seeing families that defy traditional gender norms! There are men and women with MDs, PhDs, etc. who choose to stay at home.

If more men were stay at home fathers, to the point where there was a pattern to be observed rather than outliers, employers would change their policies accordingly.

Single father families also challenge traditional gender norms. Unfortunately, if these men are not in fields where they can work from home and set their own schedules, they find themselves in workplaces that are unwilling to accomodate a single father. This is not only because of the time commitments of the family situation itself but also because having family responsibilities that rival career responsibilities defies norms of masculinity and maleness.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

I love seeing families that defy traditional gender norms! There are men and women with MDs, PhDs, etc. who choose to stay at home.

If more men were stay at home fathers, to the point where there was a pattern to be observed rather than outliers, employers would change their policies accordingly.

Single father families also challenge traditional gender norms. Unfortunately, if these men are not in fields where they can work from home and set their own schedules, they find themselves in workplaces that are unwilling to accomodate a single father. This is not only because of the time commitments of the family situation itself but also because having family responsibilities that rival career responsibilities defies norms of masculinity and maleness.

I completely agree! I'm actually fine with being the main breadwinner because in the end, I get paid well for a job I love. My husband would make much less and be miserable the whole time. He'll eventually find something he doesn't mind doing everyday, but right now he's just bored! For those who think gender discrimination doesn't occur, I can attest to being discriminated against multiple times after I graduated from med school. It shocked me then...I thought in 2000 that those things didn't happen anymore. And, I was dead wrong!