If you mean end up less successful at being old millionaires with big houses and flashy cars, that's true. Is it important for males and females to become that in equal numbers? Do we need old millionaires driving around with flashy cars and big houses at all?
What about parents raising children who are upright, have morals, and contribute to wellbeing of society? Are they less successful?
I agree with what I assume is your position that material wealth shouldn't be the sole metric of success, but I also think the fact that women and minorities struggle relative to white men to obtain material wealth is a problem we should try to solve. Those positions are not contradictory.
Why not have a world where people don't think of excessive material wealth as a metric of success at all, where people care about what fulfils their own and other's lives? In this world people don't accumulate wealth for the sake of accumulating it in the first place, and the distribution of wealth will also be more equal.
Your position would work directly against this vision, as an example.
One of the GP comments mentions Asians. I don't think Asians in North America (or anywhere else for that matter) have a hard time obtaining enough material wealth to live comfortable lives and raise families.
It is obvious that this is fundamentally inequitable, but equity isn't everyone's highest value.
You define traditionally feminine activities as disrespected, poorly paid, cheap, and then put traditionally masculine activities on a pedestal by calling it a metric of success then tell everyone who is doing the former they are prevented from doing the latter. Who is creating the inequity here?
And is equal material wealth your highest value? What about love?
And I am unequivocally against barring women or minorities from economic activity. Just in case, you thought I am.
> What about parents raising children who are upright, have morals, and contribute to wellbeing of society?
I've met plenty of very successful, wealthy people that raise great kids. It's none of my business or anyone else's how these people spend their money but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and presume "old" means "old money" which means "never worked a day to get wealthy". In which case, yes, I think they often can raise garbage kids, but I'm unsure how one could go about "fixing" that.
Great question! I'll risk to assert the latter simply because problem 1 would fix itself in my mind. There were times when no American went without...