Worse than the stone age

Switzerland is put in terms of equality still in the stone age, say it often – but it is even worse. The hunters and gatherers of the stone age would not have dreamed of the idea to rank the women exclusively on child rearing. You can't afford not to.

Quite different in Switzerland, as a survey on the compatibility of family and career from the Federal statistical office : Thus, 35 percent of the men surveyed and a quarter of the women surveyed believe that a child suffer when the mother working.

The good news is that the situation has improved already. In 1995, a whopping 61 percent of men and nearly 49 percent of the women still believed that working mothers were harming their children. Nevertheless, the typical mother-cult, the only mothers in the responsibility for the well-being of their children seems to see in Switzerland is still very popular. Our country, the imagines so much on its power of innovation, in this respect is still conservative to the bone.

We can't afford to let women exclusively raise children.

But perhaps the question is simply wrong. As relevant to this question, not the perceived Suffering, but the objective harm or Benefit should be. In fact, children are often less than enthusiastic when their mothers are available 24 hours a day at your sole disposal. In General, you are not taken, but also from the compulsory schooling very: Would you therefore call for its abolition? Hardly.

And that is why we should keep the compatibility of family and career with high-pressure forward: There is affordable child-care needs and day schools, especially in the country, where the mother cult is also fond of men is maintained, just not in the mood to care more about the children. We can afford the longer, the less, to all the well-educated women at the stove to rot. At least we have in common with the stone age people.

Created: 05.11.2019, 06:03 PM