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Originally posted by bobolarue
If you think societal pressure has nothing to do with it you're an idiot. Of course they don't just "swallow the dumb bimbo marketing" but when everyone, tv, movies, advertisements are telling you what you can and can't do it certainly will have an effect. there are always outliers and i'm not saying they don't have a choice but it certainly influences at least some women
i think you're being condescending in blaming the women for "choosing the wrong career path" when it's not always up to them 100%
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but short of changing an entire society, you have to look at each case
I'm sure if you talked to the women who become teachers, newspaper writers, poets, nurses, etc., they would say that they really love their profession. There is only so much society can shape how fulfilled you feel as a human being. The doors to engineering and really all jobs have been flung open for a while now, but women continue to, on average, choose jobs like teaching over computer science, with an annual trade-off in pay of between $50k-$100k.
And it's not like these women go on to these jobs because it makes them glamorous or congeal to society's image of the perfect, beautiful woman
They still get fat, age, and look a mess just like men. And lots of women still stay working after having children and don't give up their careers.