Unpopular opinion: with women taking a larger role in professional life, men are having to pick up the slack when it comes to child rearing. That leaves less time for men to invent, discover, create, etc. But women aren’t inventing, discovering or creating in proportion to their increased professional participation. Our society is worse off because of it.
Look at the people who made major scientific discoveries, or built new industries, or penned the most well known symphonies. They were almost entirely young men who were unmarried, or married in a time when women were expected to take care of the child rearing.
I was reading “How the Laser Happened” and the guy who invented it had four kids, but still had plenty of time to sit on park benches during evening walks by himself and ponder the physics of light. He went on many trips to visit other universities for research and worked tons of hours at Bell Labs. That was a normal way for men to work back then, even expected and viewed honorably.
We are going to have to accept less great discoveries and new inventions if society starts expecting men to bear half the effort of child rearing. You can’t come up with the laser or the Theory if Relativity if you’ve got crying kids you’re on the hook to watch while their mother is at work.
The alternative is to not even have kids, or to raise them poorly. And that’s not fair to them. Unfortunately, that seems to be what most people are settling on. Which does not bode well for the future of humanity, either.
Any way you slice it, it’s a bleak future.
Look at the people who made major scientific discoveries, or built new industries, or penned the most well known symphonies. They were almost entirely young men who were unmarried, or married in a time when women were expected to take care of the child rearing.
I was reading “How the Laser Happened” and the guy who invented it had four kids, but still had plenty of time to sit on park benches during evening walks by himself and ponder the physics of light. He went on many trips to visit other universities for research and worked tons of hours at Bell Labs. That was a normal way for men to work back then, even expected and viewed honorably.
We are going to have to accept less great discoveries and new inventions if society starts expecting men to bear half the effort of child rearing. You can’t come up with the laser or the Theory if Relativity if you’ve got crying kids you’re on the hook to watch while their mother is at work.
The alternative is to not even have kids, or to raise them poorly. And that’s not fair to them. Unfortunately, that seems to be what most people are settling on. Which does not bode well for the future of humanity, either.
Any way you slice it, it’s a bleak future.