Practical issues like nursing babies are why women were exempt from jury duty from the beginning of time until the 1970s in many states. It might seem odd that feminists at places like the American Civil Liberties Union led the fight to deny women the right to be excused from jury duty because of family responsibilities. But it's consistent with feminist goals, which are Marxist, rather than pro-female or pro-liberty.
The goal of requiring female jury duty—and combat duty—is to break open the family to the claws of the state. It's to make the household a temporary grouping, instead of an autonomous unit that governs itself, and to make every person, including small children, individually subject to state authority. This statist religion requires that no decision be too private to be subject to the review and intervention of the state. And that the state be subject to no one.
You nailed it! The contention that a nursing mother should simply hand over her infant to ... just about anyone ... so as to attend court is just another development of anti-family Marxist philosophy.
To Marxists, parents aren’t important to their children. Just anyone can take the child, at a moment’s notice. All it needs is a bottle and a place out of the rain. The care of children, the sick, and the elderly isn’t valuable to society. Yes, it sort of has to be done - or at least, we can’t just abandon too many too obviously - but it needs to be kicked downhill to the fewest, least competent workers, so that the State can better allocate the labor of women who were stupid enough to reproduce.
Plenty of soi-disant conservatives have a worldview just as inhuman and atomistic as the most doctrinaire Marxist.
I’m sure that there are many who would take issue with calling it a ‘goal’ and instead might simply call it unintended consequences of the effort to achieve gender equality……. but regardless, it certainly is a direct outcome and it highlights what happens when laws and culture conspire to push agendas that don’t hold family, marriage and life sacrosanct. Thanks for your thoughts on that…… they were both intelligent and sobering.