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    You have no basis to prove that mostly we would chose...

    THBT feminism has failed

    Thank you for your point. "when we have to decide who has to stay home and look after the kids between the mother and the father, who will you choose? Mostly we choose the mother because we believe that the mother is inferior to the father, and she is not the dominant one. This concept proves that we do not consider women on the same level as men, and this is a very basic concept. But feminism still didn't change it after fighting a battle for 4 decades!" Sorry, but this is all wrong. First of all, as I stated before, feminists aren't looking for equality of outcome. As I stated, equality is about opportunity and treatment. You have no basis to prove that mostly we would chose women. There are 317,000,000 people living in America[1]. And only 5,100,000 are stay-at-home mothers[2]. Where is the inequality? Yes, there are 176,000 stay-at-home dads[3], but that is for one important reason. Tradition. Traditionally, it was the common belief that a women should stay at home. It was viewed as a good belief, the right belief and had very little negative connotations, after all, the bible, which has been predominant in setting traditions on multiple occasions, talks about the duties of a wife. See here: http://www.openbible.info... So if we establish that it was a common view, and only, as I take your word for it, up until fourty years ago, then this tradition would be very hard to break down. But hasn't it already? Remember, feminism is about equal opportunity, not equal outcome, because that doesn't include those who still agree with the tradition or those who want to be a housewife/househusband. So equal opportunity is what we're looking for. To break the tradition that a wife should stay at home, there has to be an equal chance for women to go out and get jobs themselves, and for that information, please refer to my previous post. There is an equal, or at least more equal opportunity for women to get jobs, so this belief that a women's role is in the kitchen has deteriorated. The outcome? Well it is for sure decreasing. In the 1940s, only 28% of ladies worked[4]. My figure for today has proved that something has changed and helped change this, to bring it back down, and that is partly due to feminism. A success. [1] http://www.census.gov... [2] http://www.infoplease.com... [3] http://www.infoplease.com... [4] The 1950s, by William H. Young