Here is a hint. A career choice often means possessing a college degree. Folks that go on to higher education have a particular career in mind. I would say that is the case 99% of the time. Now, finding a job in their career choice is another issue, but, considering the most recent generation has been mostly unemployed, it really is an empty debate.
This is a bit besides the point, but there are all kinds of critics regarding college attendance. The reason, of course, is that it is inefficient in planning a life of employment. What is the answer for upward movement when one decides to work instead of attend college? Seriously. What is the alternative? Walmart. The argument they make is completely mute. It has no basis, much as the statement by the Mississippi governor. I call him that very loosely.
But, the idea that the women of Mississippi are abandoning their responsibility to their children by not have enough time to help with their homework in a nurturing way is about as hideous as it comes.
In the USA those educated with a bachelor's degree or higher is 28.2 percent. Those with the same degree level is 19.7 percent. That does not mean parents are capable of assisting with their children's homework. It does mean Mississippi have far, far less women seeking careers measured in a meaningful way. This is what happens when public education is treated as an enemy to the citizen taxpayers.
I don't really want to hear how housekeeping and motherhood is a career choice, it isn't. It is valuable work, but, it is not a career choice. A career choice requires some degree of preparation beyond what an average person would do. I don't recall any Housework University.
The median annual income in Mississippi is $38,781 and probably from at least two incomes in the household, while the USA has a median income of $52,762 in the same social dynamic. And that is another thing. The US Census measures median income, but, it does not measure how many jobs the household requires to maintain that income.
So, if the Mississippi governor, I use that term lightly, wants to blame parents for the educational outcomes of their children and nurturing, he can blame it on the fact the household needs at least two or more incomes to sustain themselves in Mississippi while their shopping takes place at cut thoat Walmart and not Main Street.
