Dr. Corinne Low
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But exactly as you said, with the AI boom, I think we recognize that real human caregiving is something that is completely irreplaceable, right?
Being able to be kind to somebody, but then also the physical labor, because a lot of caregiving is also really arduous physical labor.
And that physical labor, it has to be done in person.
It has to be done by a human being.
And so I think that these are jobs that are growing.
And that's what we see, right, is that home health aides, for example, is a actually very, you know, quickly growing job.
And yeah, I would like to see us as an economy value them more.
And I would like to see the wages reflect the value that they bring.
I joke that it was an evidence-based decision, but importantly, that's a joke, right?
I think this is also like a very personal decision.
But I think a part of my divorce, it was not just this isn't working for me individually.
It was that from a gender perspective, I just felt like it was so unfair, right?
felt like gender roles, were making decisions that I felt like we should have been making as individuals.
And what that came down to is, you know, I have this paper called Winning the Bread and Baking it Too that shows that when women are breadwinners, they still do so much more.
And that was me, is that my ex-husband left his job at some point and then โ
In this case, it wasn't that he didn't do anything.
I'm not going to make him a caricature.