Helen Mees: Women Working Part-Time Set Bad Moral Example

From The Grindstone:

Heleen Mees, a Dutch writer and economist is doing her best to push women into full-time employment. She’s sick of her fellow countrywomen sitting around and not being more active in participating in the feminist wave that has made such headway in terms of equality in the workplace. This part-time situation in the Netherlands is just helping to perpetuate the gender pay gap in Europe, which compared to America, is much greater. Says Mees:

“I think highly educated women have a moral obligation to take top positions, to set an example by their choices. When women just stay at home or work part-time, they don’t reach the top, and they set bad examples for their daughters and daughters’ daughters.”

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