CHAPTER 5 The “discrimination against stay-at-home moms” argument

This argument has surfaced in Canada in the last few years. In its more popular version,it suggests that a left-leaning feminist bias in government has led to a series of measures designed to reward families with two employed parents and to discriminate against more traditional families in which the mother stays at home full time to care for the children. In this view, if the money spent on those discriminatory measures were distributed to the more t raditional families, mothers would stay at home and care for their children,and those children would be better off.