Well, I can see this point of view. A woman I know, childless, complained to me that she got extra work dumped on her when the other women who worked with her got off and got paid for it. And then the countless soccer practices, problems at school, plays, dentist appointments, baseball practices, and so on when they left at noon - is that fair? I deal with the same thing from a man’s point of view with my male co-workers.
Don’t I pay enough for schools and get no benefit from it? I can’t even flush a toilet (absolutely true) around here without paying a school tax. So every time I take a dump, I do so “for the kids”.
I understand that but specifically described a scenario where 1) the nags weren’t working any longer than the mothers, and 2) the mothers were using time that was part of their compensation; there was no basis for complaints.
As for the school part, I understand that (and concur); I watch it firsthand drive Americans out of NJ (because they are sick of paying among the highest school taxes in the nation for someone else’s children). That is probably a holdover from the old WASP mindset that children were a positive thing (if not a necessity) for a culture and it was in the best interests of the country to provide an education for them at the public’s expense. Maybe the rationale is that someday one of those children will be changing our diapers when we’re old...