If parenting is a career, where's the retirement?
Where's the health insurance?
Why do single mothers have to get a job? Shouldn't they be allowed to pursue their "career"?
Oh, I see: that only works if you have someone to support you. In which case, if the support goes away, you are destitute, and so are your children.
Listen, Mr. Wonderful, I stayed at home with my kids for years because I thought that it was valuable work. I still think it was, for their sake, but it didn't get me anything at all for myself. You know what it got me? Invisibility, that's what.
You call it feminist mythology. That's rich, coming from someone who wishes for the Good Old Days that never were.