Mother’s Day Extended

The National Retail Federation says people spend more on Mother’s Day, $25 billion dollars compared to $16 billion for Father’s Day. Why the extra $9B? For 9 months of carrying during pregnancy?

Moms end up spending more time with kids than Dads, post birth too, for biological reasons like providing breast milk and care, while Dads are earning for the family. Moms end up spending more time with the kids, they end up loving them more, the kids would also develop a similar bond with their Mom.

Rabbi Abraham Twerski says, “People make a serious mistake in thinking that you give to those whom you love, but the real answer is you love those to whom you give. If I give something to you, I invested myself in you. True love is a love of giving”.

Now what if technology advances and Dads can become pregnant. It’s a real thing in 2020.

With that gender inequality of conceiving a kid normalized by technology. Men and Women become equal in that aspect. There is no biological inequality. Let’s leave Men out of pregnancy, let’s talk about babies born in Synthesized/Artificial Environments — Baby grown in a test tube/lab.

Now both mom and dad are equally invested. Both have their careers, both are earning and providing the family equally. Both will have an equal say in everything. Both love equally and spend equal time with the kids. The extra $9B spent on Mother’s Day should go down to zero.

Before the invention of condoms, pills and all of the birth control technology, Women did not have choice to time their pregnancy, which will make it tough to plan their careers. In olden days, prime age of a woman from 20–45 is mostly gone in pregnancy and nursing. Now with just 1–2 pregnancies, which is about 2–3 years of “out of work” time, the gender inequality has come down in the last 100 years. The strongest factor for the diminished gender inequality in the last century is because of the invention of Condoms. Examples of achieving women, supportive men, changing mindsets etc did play a significant role, but hands down , most impactful is birth control technology.

For the coming 1–2 generations, whatever gender inequality that prevails today to be gone, has to be through growing Lab Kids or some equivalent of it. That is by taking down the inherent biological difference between men and women that nature created. No amount of hashtags, slogans, philosophical conversations & shouting on top of your voice can totally take down the inequality completely(please note the use of word completely here).

Future Technology is the cure for every inequality/discrimination that exists today!