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by groth 4804 days ago
As other people have pointed out, this article seems to argue that women should have work-life balance as if it were a problem specific to women. But that assumption itself is a huge part of the problem women face in achieve de fact equality. It is often taken as a given that a woman should be the primary care-taker of children. It is often taken as a given that woman is _naturally_ more invested in family life. It is often taken as a given that women need more life in the whole work-life balance equation. These sort of assumptions reify the norm that men work and women stay at home. Sandburg and her cohort advocate for an extreme repudiation of this norm even to the extent of abandoning work-life balance as a whole. One might argue that Sandburg is too much of a capitalist robot, but to revert in the other direction is just as bad, if not totally regressive.