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Posted by mgoss on Tue Mar 28, 2006 at 09:13:10 PM EST

Expatica news reports that Dutch MP Sharon Dijksma proposes fining women with college degrees who choose to stay at home instead of entering the paid workforce. Dijksma explains: "A highly-educated woman who chooses to stay at home and not to work -- that is destruction of capital. If you receive the benefit of an expensive education at the cost of society, you should not be allowed to throw away that knowledge unpunished."

Here's another solution: Stay-at-home mothers could agree to make use of their degrees by home-schooling their children. Think that would fly in the Dutch parliament?

(Hat tip: Worldmagblog)

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A Devil's Bargain | 2 comments (2 topical, 0 hidden)

That's the worst logic I've ever seen (none / 0) (#1)
by Wacky Hermit on Wed Mar 29, 2006 at 10:11:59 AM EST

By Dijksma's "logic," anyone who gets a college degree and works outside of their proscribed field should also be fined. I mean, God forbid you should be able to freely choose to work where you think your efforts are best spent. I wonder what she proposes doing to all the unemployed people in Holland who are also "destroying capital."

I'm glad she isn't a US politician, because I enjoy having a Master's degree in math and being home with my four children and running a small home-based business.

State assets (none / 0) (#2)
by robspe on Wed Mar 29, 2006 at 01:25:15 PM EST

Of course workers are an asset of the State. You aren't questioning the wisdom of the People, are you?

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