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2021-11-15 Economy

Why so many women dropped out the workforce — and aren’t coming back

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Posted by trailing wife 2021-11-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 The question: "What useful service other than babysitting does the public school system provide?"

Posted by magpie 2021-11-15 00:39|| 2021-11-15 00:39|| Front Page Top

Perhaps 80,000 new IRS agents and those new Blue Bird school buses won't be needed after all. We're teaching life-skills right here at home now.

Actions, they have consequences.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-11-15 00:56|| 2021-11-15 00:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Tune in, turn on, drop out

Smash the State, ~~1970~~ 2021 version

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-11-15 01:11|| 2021-11-15 01:11|| Front Page Top

#4
Sexist as it sounds.

Given the School and Pre-K closings over the last almost 18+ months. Someone needed to stay home. Females have always had better control of the brats, and management of the house, than the sperm donor.

Posted by NN2N1 2021-11-15 07:19|| 2021-11-15 07:19|| Front Page Top

#5 And they've had over a year of budget management, learned to prioritize what is really important and what is simply self gratification for its own sake. Close the restaurants and dining out stop being an option and an expense (compounded by Bideninflation to nip the practice on the reopening). Suddenly, many discover it has been a rat race.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-11-15 07:45|| 2021-11-15 07:45|| Front Page Top

#6 ^Not in today's world. Men are out of the family unit.Much happier as a result.Nurses quitting healthcare and are taking jobs at Dollar Generals. Taking early retirements also. Women better at childcare hardly. Taking drugs and letting the kids run wild is the new normal. Several children from different men. ADD, OCD, bipolar you name it. I see it every day. The new normal. The man who is sucked into a relationship is most likely the loser. Child support, child threatens abuse or she does and you know how that goes. Money is the first loss. Freedom a close second. So the school has a problem with a child. The mother replies when contacted(if at all) if you can do a better job, take them. City kids family these days is most likely a gang.The new normal and this has been coming on for several years now.

Posted by Dale 2021-11-15 08:10|| 2021-11-15 08:10|| Front Page Top

#7 "Mother's Little Helper" came out in 1966...

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-11-15 08:15|| 2021-11-15 08:15|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ that all exited prior to the Great Lockdown. The question posed is why now.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-11-15 08:16|| 2021-11-15 08:16|| Front Page Top

#9 Don't forget the other clarifying effect of this: Zoom instruction by incompetent public schoolteachers. Moms (and dads) got a felony-row seat at the circus that is most public school classrooms: semi-literate teachers, infantile curriculums, kids checked out and not learning a damn thing. No responsibke mom would go off to work knowing that her school aged children were in the hands of such lunatics.

Now the parents know why so many US kids are either fat and ignorant or striving but neurotic and depressed all the time. Our culture is sick and our schools reflect this rot.

All of which has been true for more than three decades of stupid fads like Common Core. Or the sixty-year reign of "phonics," that now-acknowledged debacle which rendered two generations of Americans less literate than their mid 20c- educated predecessors.

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-11-15 08:18|| 2021-11-15 08:18|| Front Page Top

#10 * front-row seat at the circus

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-11-15 08:19|| 2021-11-15 08:19|| Front Page Top

#11 not mentioned is the implosion in the leisure and hospitality sector of the economy

a lot of women are desk clerks, cooks, do housekeeping work, bar tenders, waitresses, etc.

employment in this industry plummeted during the lockdown phase of the pandemic

it is coming back now but still a long, long way to go as a lot of retail in downtown areas is tied to on site employment of office workers and if those people continue remote work, the retail will not fully recover

Posted by Lord Garth 2021-11-15 08:49|| 2021-11-15 08:49|| Front Page Top

#12 Dunno what neighborhood you live in, Dale, but you sound terribly pessimistic. I prefer to think of it as shown in Besoeker's graphic with the little girl helping her mother to hang clothes on a line so they can dry naturally in the air without using all that icky gas and electricity.

I know things are somewhat different today but I remember my own mother never worked outside the home. We walked home from school to our own mother instead of some stranger. There were cookies and milk. The house was clean and orderly. Instead of buying new blue jeans, she sewed patches on the knees of the jeans we had. Then we could go outside and play in our own neighborhood with our little neighborhood brat pack. Boy, that was fun. Really. Running around unsupervised outside all that time, I'm sure we grew up tougher and more street wise than today's kids. If we did get hurt, we could always run home to mom who would take care of it. Somehow my dad provided for all that. We weren't rich. We didn't live in the nicest neighborhood. But we did alright.

But, yes, dad was definitely in the picture and mom did not drink or do drugs. We did not get food stamps or welfare either. Dad did it all the old fashioned way. He worked for it.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-11-15 13:07|| 2021-11-15 13:07|| Front Page Top

#13 ^The problem growing older you can see the changes before and after. The G man, "G. Gordon Liddy as "a man of fantastic intelligence and complexity." Educated privately by Benedictines and Jesuits, Liddy earned a B.S. degree from Fordham University and an Ll.D. from the Fordham Law School, graduating as an editor of The Fordham Law Review". Wrote a book on the subject contrasting his early days to today. I relay what I see. I am a realist. I don't make this stuff up. DC was my home area. I can never go back. I prefer to remember DC as it was not what it is today. The mid sixties things began to change. When; if you are lucky, the family gathers for thanksgiving. Phones, TV all now compete for time. Many of the young can't even cook anymore. Today's world is a cheap counterfeit of what used to be. So where do I live now, small town USA near DC and Baltimore.

Posted by Dale 2021-11-15 13:47|| 2021-11-15 13:47|| Front Page Top

#14 The only schools that should be provided are k-12 with STEM, civics, and some 'Will Durant' humanities . No support for post k-12 except for vocational (trade) school.

Posted by irish rage boy 2021-11-15 20:29|| 2021-11-15 20:29|| Front Page Top

#15 kitchen, laundry room, bedroom, football/baseball/soccer practice, book club, vacation, did I miss anything....

Posted by 746 2021-11-15 21:11|| 2021-11-15 21:11|| Front Page Top

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