The article also notes that “This has already been demonstrated in higher income countries,”. Studies showing the same thing have already been done in higher income nations; they wanted to see if the same held true for lower income nations as well.

The description of someone’s personal experience can be more illustrative than a thousand theories. I appreciate your having taken the time to detail your own. I’m a little older than most commenters on Jezebel (49) and my friend has a few years on me. Distressing to know that so little has changed in the interim. And…

Partly because there is a link to how long a mother is able to stay home with their new infant and how likely the infant is to survive. The longer the mother is able to stay home, the more likely their infant is to live.

I think both are necessary. Infants younger than 6 months are pretty fragile and childcare for infants at that age is both expensive and can be dangerous. Not to mention having to quickly come back into work after giving birth is physically brutal.

Thank you. This is intriguing information. I appreciate your taking the time to post your expert insight, here. Still not letting the administration off the hook, here, though. :)

I’m not sure about whether occupational sex segregation is deliberate or subconscious, but it’s probably both. Basically, when you control for all the factors of wage differences between men and women (education, experience, motherhood, etc.), there is still an unexplained gender wage gap and unexplained gaps are…

Childcare has been proven to keep mother in the workforce but everyone is obsessed with maternity leave. I don’t understand why.

That’s fascinating; thank you. Do you feel that the occupational gender segregation, in these countries, was deliberate or was it an unconscious dispersal (of roles)?

I actually did my thesis on the gender pay gap and one of the most surprising discoveries was that countries with strong governmental programs for maternity leave actually had larger gender pay gaps. This is because these countries had more occupational sex segregation, meaning women were more likely to be hired for…

Indeed! It isn’t a thing that’s going to stop me from having kids (my personality and inability to make a relationship last will probably do that), but damn if it isn’t deeply distressing how little women are valued—something that becomes even clearer when the women in question aren’t white.

Exactly.

I’m v tired, and was ready to get indignant

I mean, it comes down to choice. Women keep CHOOSING to have babies, whereas men make the smarter choice not to gestate and birth their career-derailing spawn. If men decided to make the delicious choice of conceiving, gestating, and splorting a nine pound baby out of a teeny-tiny personal orifice, they’d experience…

I don’t think she was arrested for the toplessness, but for the running towards the asshole, and supposedly being somewhere she wasn’t allowed to be.

Just came here to say she was Clarissa’s cool friend and she was also on Shining Time Station. Oh, and she played Jessie in the awful Baby Sitter’s Club show on HBO that was so bad but that first grade me really, really loved.

Didn’t her company go bankrupt? I bet she didn’t see that coming!

I’m just happy someone other than me remembers who Miss Cleo was.

So so she’s arrested, in part, for exposing her breasts, so they handcuff her hands behind her back and parade her around like that? Because her voluntarily going topless is illegal, but this is okay.

Whatever unlawful act she did, arrest her, but don’t shove a topless woman in the motherfucking bush, you pigs.

She was on an episode of “The Cosby Show” called “Eat, Drink and Be Wary.”