re: Women want equal pay? Stop babysitting

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Oh, you mean something that pays the same as grass cutting?

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You think grass cutting and baby-sitting are comparably hard? Grass cutting requires gasoline, your own equipment, and the grass doesn't cut itself for 4 of the 5 hours. The OP is kind of right on his point. Baby sitters are often times family friends who get overpaid, rather than a market wage, as a favor.

I don't know if that contributes to the phenomenon of women thinking they deserve more pay or not. But I could certainly see a case of being in for a rude awakening when a girl realizes that her brother's "grass cutting" and her "babysitting" are no longer valued the same in the real world.