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House-husbandry isn't considered a guy thing

The single dad is a sex symbol; the single mother is, well, just a struggling, unfortunate woman

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Kanika Datta
Pay disparities and the high drop-out rate of professionally qualified women from the white collar workforce have been topics of fiercely contested debates about gender equality in the workplace. Innate male prejudice is responsible for these problems, the activists say. Managements (mostly male but the occasional female too) insist that the gap is illusory and that work environments have nothing to do with it; it is the women who choose to put personal lives before careers and drop out. 

The truth, as always, lies in between. But not in the way Cheryl Sandberg, who exhorts working women to “lean in”, or
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