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Any ideas on how to ensure women retain financial independence?



Not at a policy level, really. Women could prefer stay-at-home spouses, to protect their own financial independence, though, even in a world so extremely into single-income households that such arrangements were somehow legally mandated (which isn't workable and probably isn't desirable anyway, but, even in that extreme, there'd be options, provided regulations weren't, themselves, sexist).

It's all hypothetical, anyway. We're not going back to that. Outside chance a few other countries do (some are still much farther that direction than we are) but the US never will, barring tyrannical theocracy or something like that. I do think we're buying rather less happiness than one might hope, for all this extra paid labor, but I also doubt that's a solvable problem, realistically.


Independence from whom?

From their husbands? Only to be dependent on some stranger boss instead?


What reason is there to assume spousal abuse and abuse from a boss is comparable in either frequency or severity?

Not to mention that one relationship seems much harder to get out of than another.




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