Reply To: Ladies First – Is it respectful or not?

Meno:

“This reminds me of a guy who wants to adopt a kid, so he calls up an adoption agency, and they tell him the waiting list is around two years. He responds, “Forget it. I don’t even know if I’ll want a kid in two years.”

It’s not quite the same. Often girls don’t want to pursue careers in fields that take a lot of schooling for the simple reason that they (correctly) see their tafkid in life as being wives and mothers and their job as a side thing and perhaps just as a means to an end. If they are planning on getting married and starting a family young, going into a field that requires a lot of schooling can be complicated.