re: Wife quit her professional medical job when we decided to have a kid

This is becoming less personal and more general and political which I planned

Not talking about my wife or any one woman in particular but overall it's definitely tough. Imagine the reaction from plenty of parents, teachers, or the mass media if a little girl said she wants to grow up and be a homemaker and have lots of babies and clean and cook for her husband. In pop culture this model is lampooned and outdated amd misogynist. Rarely shown in a positive light in tv and movies, all the focus is on strong indepedent career women. Third wave feminism kicked off in the 60s with The Feminist Mystique, a book entirely about shaming the housewife

Generally I think a lot of women in this country are so unhappy denying their true instincts for this life because it's been beat into them that it makes them weak and lesser-than. And that pride will not let them overcome it and it's sad