For a woman, extra career success will not boost her attractiveness in the same way it will for me.
This is a huge incentive. If women don't have the same incentives to work hard as men, how can they achieve the same level of success?
In the real world daycare works on banker hours. Usually you have to get there when other people are starting work, and you have to get there usually when people are leaving work. If you're late, you'll be charged a not insignificant amount of money PER MINUTE. This matters a lot when you realize how much day care is (it costs literally more than my mortgage...).
Think of the impact on having on average an hour less "working hours" than your coworkers per day.... By the way, you're not going to be able to just make up the time when you get home.... you have a child to take care of when you get home.
This is not an incentives problem, this is a logistics issue.
IMO, the software industry is one of the most flexible industries. I've had flexible hours ever since changing into IT more than a decade ago.
And yet we have a large gender imbalance.
Also, it looks you've been using HN primarily for political and ideological arguments (at least recently). That's not what we want here, and worse, it's actively destructive of what we do want—thoughtful discussions and intellectual curiosity. So please don't use HN like this.
We're all pretty sick of your badgering everyone with differing opinions, dang.
If you want a safe space insulated from intellectual diversity, try NeoGaf.
Nevertheless, I will try to be more thoughtful with my comments.
be careful with this line of thinking.
if all you're looking to do is attract a mate with all that money, you're better off investing that time into acting lessons, music lessons, and athletic training.
or you might find out the hard way that being a charismatic, guitar-playing tri-athlete is going to land you a higher quality and more loyal mate than $10 million in the bank ever will.
I wasn't stating that only success matters, just that it is an additional factor and this is motivational.
If this is a serious comment, you really need to reexamine how you interact with and feel about women.
fundamentally false
Did you know that women find 80% of men to be unattractive?
https://theblog.okcupid.com/your-looks-and-your-inbox-8715c0...
From the article: "As you can see from the gray line, women rate an incredible 80% of guys as worse-looking than medium. Very harsh."
The parents post is essentially arguing that women tend to find a different set of characteristics attractive than men do.
In particular monetary success in a partner matters more to women.
Can you post a serious counter-argument?
If you have research showing that women date down the income quartiles more often than men you could really add to the discussion.
Resorting to saying the parent has issues with women is not an acceptable level of discourse for HN.