Being a mother who stays at home needs to be a celebrated thing in our culture. I'm a millenial and grew up with boomer parents whose mother was the breadwinner. I graduated at the top of my class, won shitloads of awards and scholarships, and constantly was told "career, career,career!" (Especially, STEM career.)

I aced all my classes, but I wasn't interested in STEM careers and honestly, the thought of toiling in the workforce with 2 weeks of annual vacation seemed fucking awful. Becoming a doctor (everyone pushed me to go for that) seemed impractical. While I was never EVER instructed in anything motherhood related, I had enough common sense and biological imperative to know I would probably want kids and that pursuing an MD would fuck that up. I went into teaching because it felt natural and I enjoyed being around kids and I thought it would be smart to have a job whose schedule aligns with my potential children. There was palpable disappointment in my choice as I was "too good and too smart" to be "just a teacher."

The only thing I knew I wanted to be was a grandmother. Baking pies and snuggling little kids seemed like this thing grandmothers did and I had this strange disconnect with motherhood since it was wrapped up in all this career and other bullshit (not to mention a total lack of instruction in understanding female fertility, breastfeeding, infant care, etc.) I knew motherhood was this necessary step to grandmotherhood and I had this idea I would have to grin and bear motherhood to reach my goal. My perception was based off of how I grew up watching my mom stressed the fuck out working full time along with parenting duties.

All this is to say that shit is fucked up for the girls (and I'm not even addressing the hypergamy issue or social media aspect contributing to this situation). While I stay at home and homeschool my kids (which of course elicited another round of disappointment because I am "too smart to be JUST a mom"), I am lucky to be a non mainstream thinker because the anti natal, SAHM life is drudgery, you-go-girl-get-that-job mentality is everywhere. No one is encouraging girls (and especially, the really smart girls) to be mothers or even figure out the best way to gel motherhood with a career. You just start having your bio clock scream at you in your mid-20s and have to figure it out. It's very cruel for society to refuse to instill guidance about motherhood.

Getting women back into the homes as mothers and wives (and the valuable community support roles women had when they were all at home), require that motherhood be glorified as worthy. This message needs to be propagandized big time. This will be a lot more convincing than the "get in the kitchen" attitude. Of course, if society is at the point of cracking skulls, that will change. But until the right wing can enforce these kinds of gender roles, propaganda featuring mothers as something aspirational would help a lot.

All nigger workplace.

Makes the women uncomfortable due to sexual harassment, but the niggers can't be fired because dats racis

Elevate the Christian Mother and Father as a societal ideal again. This is where women can shine-- raising kids and taking care of a husband and home. Let men lead. Let men raise the boys. Single motherhood is destroying the development of men.

It will only come from other women. We need to change the culture so women start shaming other women again.

Show them my hands & tell them theirs'll probably look like that in about a month.

Women took all the HR jobs and hired all women. Until you get them out of the HR jobs nothing will change

I hire and promote strictly on merit. That alone goes a long way. Sucks a lot to be trying to roll on one income the traditional way right now because unless everyone starts doing it wages are still going to be far lower than they should be.