Why can women live at home at any age,,,,,,,,,,,

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However,society is a little easier on women if they live at home at later ages

Yeah I get where you're coming from and sorry for being so agrressive. But it gets pretty tiring having these discussions all over WP about how women have it easier.

How is making a thread about it going to fix that if it is true anyway? All its going to do is drive you into a bitter spiral into the ground of hate and darkness.

Some women are guilted into living at home past a certain age.

In my country:

- Both man and woman are only supposed to leave home when they marry

- People who live alone are almost considered anti-social or something similar

- In case of a divorce, is not rare to return to parent's house (but more in case of women)

- There are more social pressure to marry in the case of women

- "Stay-at-home mothers" don't exist below the 50 y.o. range (note that our median wage is $1000/month)

What is interesting in this thread is to see that most members live in a world much different from mine (social pressure to leave parents home?? women staying at home with the kids??)

The only thing I can think of that has been easier for me as a female is that it is easier to come up with stuff on a minimum-wage job application to fill the "gaps" so that I don't look so pathetic.

For example, after being homeless for four months and unable to find a job, I was able to make something up to fill that gap so it didn't look like I was homeless and unable to find a job for four months. Like "looking after ill family member." An employment gap of a couple of years can be spackled up with "married and stay-at-home housewife." Those sorts of application excuses don't look as good to an employer when they're on a man's application.

But anyway, it only works for very low-level jobs that aren't going to investigate you and don't really care if you were doing something "in your field" or not but only care whether you're a total loser or only enough of a loser to really need that job at McDonald's. And all it really does is make the applicant look more responsible and together than they really are. And I suspect that people who hire for those crap jobs already know that when someone says they were taking care of their sick grandmother they are totally lying to cover up the fact that they couldn't hold on to even the kind of job that pretty much hires just about anybody who walks in off the street, often the day they apply.

And, for all I know, there are similar "application gap fillers" for men, but I've never been able to think of one that would look better than "homeless and unemployed, living in the park and bathing in the filling station restroom." So that's one advantage I can think of to being female -- having an easier time hiding a really patchy work history -- but it's a pretty piss-poor advantage, if you ask me.

I can say that I was nagged plenty when I was living with my parents. much of it was well meaning, career suggestions which they didnt realise i could not do, and lots of other suggestions of what I should be doing.

I basically get on a lot better with them when I am not living with them, as wonderful as they are.

And I dont know about this good looking women nonsense. I was considered good looking in my 20s but I have had far from an easy ride, and I am stil not married.