This is the real “trap” created by two-earner culture. Nor is the existing liberal answer to some of these dilemmas — universal day care of the kind that Warren now champions — a sufficient response. But there are many families that don’t want full-time day care just as there are many families that don’t want two full-time jobs, and their desire can be entirely reasonable. Don’t subsidize day care, don’t subsidize stay-at-home moms; just subsidize family life, and let the sexes figure out how best to balance work and life, their ambitions and their desire for kids. But neither will a feminism that writes off the aspects of traditionalism that reflect what many women want.

Source: New York Times May 07, 2019 09:56 UTC