While I agree with you that the social pressure is a bad thing; that's social pressure, not legal force. Women have the right to choose, but other women also have the right to voice their opinions -- even if we don't like them.

Well, looks like it's not a problem then. And it doesn't look like they're for your „civil liberties“.

Unless you don't like them voicing their opinions and their choices?

As if your wife did not work… That is what they think (“what, so you have no job?”).

Yes. Somehow same stuff becomes a proper work if we hired a nanny.

I guess „work“ depends on generating GDP for many people. Sort of like me cooking dinner is not work, yet cook at a restaurant is working.

> I guess „work“ depends on generating GDP for many people

Exactly. If a city council hire a gardener, buy his tools and pay him 40k/yr, the nominal GDP will be 40k (+ the tool's prices for the first year and their maintenance costs).

If the city council pay a company 80k/yr to take care of the same, they will hire a gardener 40k, buy tools, and the GDP will be 120k/yr (+ tools prices etc). Even though the production was the same.

If you wife worked and you had to pay a nanny, the GDP of your country would rise more than if the nanny was formed to take on your wife job.

I know the numbers. But IMO that's wrong. Dinner is dinner, wether I cooked it myself or paid someone to cook it for me.

Rat race for GDP without context must die.