By Josh Kane CSO, Chit
Women have always understood that a functioning society requires sacrifice.
That is why, for generations, they have generously volunteered to make less money than men.
Nobody forced them. Apparently.
They simply looked at the available salaries and said, “Give him the rest. He might need a larger television or a truck capable of hauling equipment he does not own.”
It is one of the largest charitable programs in American history.
Women work the same hours, meet the same deadlines, and sometimes train the man who will eventually supervise them. Then payday arrives, and they graciously leave a little extra in the corporate bowl for him.
But their generosity does not end there.
Women also volunteer to produce every human being.
Men certainly help. We contribute one ingredient, usually in less time than it takes to microwave a Hot Pocket, and then remain available for occasional updates.
Women handle the pregnancy, hormonal changes, nausea, medical appointments, physical risk, labor, recovery, and the permanent rearrangement of several internal departments.
Naturally, because women do all the biological work, men should make most of the laws governing it.
That is just common sense.
You would never allow the pilot to decide how to fly the plane. The passengers should vote on it. Ideally, passengers who have never entered a cockpit and remain suspicious that turbulence is caused by female pilots becoming emotional.
Men bring valuable objectivity to reproductive policy because we are protected from nearly every physical consequence of it.
We can discuss childbirth calmly because nobody is asking us to push a watermelon through an opening designed by a committee that clearly hated women.
Some critics argue that women should control decisions involving their own bodies. But that would create a dangerous precedent.
What comes next?
Employees deciding how they should be compensated?
Patients participating in their medical care?
People with direct experience being consulted before legislation is written?
Government cannot function under those conditions.
Fortunately, women continue volunteering.
They volunteer to earn less.
They volunteer to give birth.
They volunteer to recover quickly because their employer generously allowed them to use their remaining vacation days.
Then they graciously let a conference room full of men explain what all of it means.
And men have responded with equal courage.
We accept the extra money.
We occupy the powerful offices.
We write the rules.
We explain that these arrangements are mostly women’s personal choices.
It is exhausting, but leadership has never been easy.
We could not maintain this system without women’s sacrifice.
More importantly, we could not maintain it if we started calling that sacrifice what it actually is.
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