Feminists? Any here?

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As an aside, I'm interested in knowing brewer's identity since person has only 1 post.

The horrible reality is if a woman does choose to become a full-time housewife, mother at home and she is not in the paid work force for a long time, meaning 5-10 yrs., she might risk relevancy of her work-related skills prior to full-time at home. I'm sure several of us, know personally several mothers who suddenly were divorced and hence, had to find paid work. So keeping one foot in the paid workforce, is like a insurance mechanism if something goes awry with the primary breadwinner. ie. s/he might get laid off, become accidentally disabled, etc.

Some professions, particularily the professions involving legislated certification, testing and licensing requires that the person practices in their profession, at least part-time, to keep their knowledge and skill set up to date. So this internal professional pressure applies for men or women of that profession. Or their trained skill set prior to full-time-at-home parent phase, is tied deeply to technological changes, changes in legislation, diagnostic methods which some jobs are.

Hence, feminism provides the woman if she wishes, to develop more effective, long-term coping mechanisms that benefits her family and herself in the long-term.

Nowadays one would be hard-pressed to believe that any woman at some point in her life, could live her whole lifetime and not thought in some small way the choices that she wanted to make and explaining her reasons to others. The sad thing, do all men go through this? I doubt it. Some thankfully, have approached their options thoughtfully, ie. becoming a father or not becoming a father, impact of their job location on family, etc.