The sacrifice we've made is not having children because I am not capable (or unwilling) to have my career and also to take on the duties and responsibilities of a housewife/mom.)
And that's the point. In the past, a man worked and a woman sat at home, caring for children. Now, a woman is graciously allowed to "pursue her work career" (read: work eight or more hours as a slave to one company or another and the state) but at what price? At the price of not having enough time to look after her children. You don't want to have children, fine, but what about those who want? They get one year or two years of maternity leave, like in my country, and then they either ask their parents to look after the kids while they are at work, give the children to the nursery school or hire a nanny. This way, a child is brought up not by its own parents but by its grandparents, strangers or the state.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying a woman should spend her whole life sitting at home, but at least, she should have more flexible work conditions, much longer maternity leave stretching to several years, the ability to work part-time for a higher salary, leave the work earlier if she needs and so on. Instead, she's facing plenty of obstacles on her way. Employers often don't want to hire young women because they are afraid they will become pregnant any time. A woman after the maternity leave finds it hard to return to her job.
The same is with the elderly people. Our prime-minister announced she's going to build more care homes so that young people don't have to look after their old parents but can give them away and keep fulfilling their social roles. She could spend that money on people who give up their jobs to look after their parents but nope. For fuck's sake, if caring for your own child or for your own parents that spent their whole lives caring for you is not your social role, then what is your social role? Working your ass off for some corporation?
There are plans to make teachers work longer because parents finish their work later than teachers and have nobody to leave their children with. When I worked as a teacher, many children stayed at school till late in the evening and some teachers were delegated to look after them, prepare some activities for them. How much time did these children spend with their own parents?
This all contributes to the decomposition and decay of the family and weakening of the family bonds. And it is all done under the banner of retarded propaganda of gender equality, pursuing career, fulfilling your dreams blah blah blah. Smoke and mirrors.