Precious Roy, you seem like a smart guy so I want to engage you in conversation.
Precious Roy wrote:
Reproduction of the population is the most essential activity that goes on in our society. Women spend nine months dealing with often severe physical side effects of pregnancy. After birth, women continue with many physical issues from post partum depression to hair loss to weight gain to complications from birth/c-sections. Women receive no compensation for this even though society would cease to exist without this service.
Reproduction is a misnomer--clearly both men and women are necessary to engage in reproduction.
You are referring to child bearing and maybe child rearing.
Women often get plenty of "compensation" for child bearing. Health care for pregnant women is highly available through the government or other employers. Employer often provide paid maternity leave.
As for the physical side effects. Who exactly should be "compensating" women for their weight gain (or what are you really talking about)? Child bearing is hard work, I get it, its 12 months and its sucks. They get time off work, good prenatal care, and some post-partum pills from their doc. Women get to choose who they have sex with, so if their partner is not "compensating" them somehow or supporting them, thats really an issue of a woman's judgment and a man's behavior rather than any widespread social issue.
Of course, the analysis is really one sided. Once a woman does become a mother, she has child support to extort the father of her children. The entire family law system is highly biased against men, and any mother can use that leverage how she wishes. Those 18 years are much longer than the 12 months of physical side effects.
Where is the male privilege in this? Nowhere, family court are misandry at its finest, and nowhere are women forced to have children. The fact that you even equate maternity with femininity shows that you are likely struggling with some misogyny issues yourself.