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The core idea of his article is that, as technology progresses, the artificial womb will be seen by top professionals as the solution to work-family balance \u2014 not because women will use this to defer having a child until they\u2019ve reached a point in their careers that they can coast (which is, basically, never, or at least not until you\u2019re at early retirement age and\/or don\u2019t care about that next promotion), but because the reason why women don\u2019t push themselves to great career success to the same degree as men do, is because they become, not just parents but mothers<\/i>, and that the very act of gestating a child and giving birth to that child binds a mother to that child, with a bond that fathers don\u2019t experience, and compels them to make career decisions that enable them to spend more time with that child. \u00a0Hence, artificial womb = the more detached feeling toward parenting that fathers feel = more drive to spend extra time at the office = gender equality.<\/p>\n

Of course, he\u2019s attempting a Swiftian satire (wikipedia article here<\/a>, and actual text here<\/a>), though no one among the Slate commenters seems to recognize it. \u00a0But I\u2019ve come to the conclusion that it\u2019s really hard to do well, and here it doesn\u2019t work well. \u00a0Besides, he only received 124 comments, though this appeared last night, and it\u2019s still early today.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"