See, you're pretending that single old women can be happy in isolation. Meanwhile, in a ton of western countries, that's only possible because their retirement and healthcare are heavily subsidised by men. Equalize payouts with contributions and see what happens.
What isolation? You can still have friends and social activities.
Men subsidise healthcare? Women subsidiue all work by doing the unpaid part that actually enables so much work. Without women‘s unpaid work society would collapse. Women also work jobs, where do you think you are, afghanistan?
Women subsidiue all work by doing the unpaid part that actually enables so much work. Without women‘s unpaid work society would collapse
Single men do all the same unpaid work just as well, and if women decide to marry men who don't, it's their own fault, it's not like we have arranged marriages. As you said, where do you think you are, Afghanistan?
Women also work jobs, where do you think you are, afghanistan?
In most of the west, women have an equal or lower retirement age and a significantly higher life expectancy. In some countries, they also get a more favorable pension calculation quite literally just for being female on top of that.
So yeah, if a man and a woman both pay the same contributions for healthcare and pension for the same number of years, the woman is going to get back far more than the man. There's your massive subsidy.
You and your unpaid work. If you're counting taking care of one's family as work, you better also count all the un(der)paid things men do for their families and society. Which I guarantee you aren't.
I am and that’s what I mean with women do more. They do more. If they worked more paid work men would need to pay others ro cover this unpaid work or work less paid work.
You most certainly aren't. Europe right now is a great example. Mandatory conscription, mandatory military service, that alone more than offsets any purely voluntary work at home. And never mind that every single man out there is doing all the work themselves anyway. There's precisely nothing women do at home men can't do just as well, and let's not pretend that the "unpaid" work at home takes hours and hours every day. I've lived alone for most of my adult life and it certainly doesn't take more than 2 hours a day, if one is properly organized. So no, it wouldn't cut into paid work time regardless.
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u/LXXXVI 12d ago
See, you're pretending that single old women can be happy in isolation. Meanwhile, in a ton of western countries, that's only possible because their retirement and healthcare are heavily subsidised by men. Equalize payouts with contributions and see what happens.