International Men's Day is apparently controversial

[Corsair 115]

and here are some of those examples:

We should have a day to remember men's long and ongoing struggle for suffrage and franchise.

Assuming Sideroxylon is being serious rather than sarcastic, the (implied) idea that all men had the vote and all women didn't until the noble suffragettes won women the vote is, at the very least, a misrepresentation of history.

In Canada, for example, some women were awarded the vote before some men were. It's a rather complicated story; this site details the history of voting rights in Canada.

 

[pharphis]

This study come up on my news feed the other day, which kind of inks in with your post:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151130182516.htm
" If the majority of young women and men who plan to have families expect to "work it out" when those caregiving responsibilities emerge rather than deliberately accommodating family plans, she said, employers must work harder to institute flexibility policies and re-entry programs that will retain talented workers."

So most people do not choose career paths based upon caregiving considerations in the future. Yet women are still choosing careers that fit in with a different lifestyle choice to men.

Seems like a pretty small sample size, though this does agree with my experience. Can't say I've ever known someone in post-secondary education who has said they are majoring in anticipation of their family responsibilities.

What I've noticed is people either study what they find interesting (most people) or what they think will rake in lots of money (mostly Asians, mostly engineering or medicine)