The mommy track has become a very real concern when it comes to women who want to have a rewarding career and still have children. Since women make up half the workforce in today’s society, the previous views or perspective that a woman cannot due both successfully has become a hot topic. Previously, it was expected that once a woman decided to have a child, she would have to switch to a part time job with little chance for advancement since she would not be able to devote the time needed to be successful as she advanced her career. Another possibility was that she would decide to leave the company altogether and raise the children as a full time mother. With women’s rights advancing and government protections being created for ensure fair treatment and equality among the sexes, making headway. It seems that there is a very real need to create…
Yet single mothers struggle to juggle either working or finding a job and care for a child. In Rosanna Hertz's Working to Place Family at the Center of Life: Dual-Earner and Single-Parent Strategies, she talks about single mothers and what they have to go through in order to take care of their children. Women who work are extremely dedicated to family because they work around caring for a family and the primary source of income for the family is through their job. Because these women have no second person or partner to help them raise the child/ children then they must work twice as hard in order to provide their child with daycare or look for other outside sources to help care for the child while at work. "Unlike the dual-earner couples, these single mothers have fewer resources internal to the family to call on in trying to cultivate external resources- in broader kin and friendship networks- to help them put family first" (254, Hertz, FF). Women also work multiple jobs in order to provide for their children and keep family at the center of their lives. Most women who work multiple jobs or extremely long hours hardly get to see their children. "Her child spent four days a week being cared for at her mother's home and three days a week at her own home. Without her mother's help, the cost would have made it impossible to remain employed" (255, Hertz, FF). Long hours or no benefits, women must rely on other people to care for their children and end up losing quality time with their child because of work demands. Because women do not have that second person or partner to help share in the child rearing, they must create external relationships to help fill in that gap left behind by being a single mother. They must create "support networks" to raise a…
Although these days women do have careers they are still socially seen as the homemaker regardless of this. A woman’s domestic role is often run alongside other work and a great number of women choose careers which are care based.…
Topic: Why do women still do most of the housework even in those households where both partners are in full-time employment?…
Quality time has become a password in two career families vs. a one career family. Many working parents try to set aside time in their hectic days to devote to their children. but what are the qualities of "quality time," and what differences does a a two career family have compared to a one career family? These along with some other questions remain unclear in today's society.…
This study attempts to investigate the relationship between the work and family lives. The research data was collected from 45 IT professionals working in a reputed software development firm based in Colombo. The company, having a flat organizational structure, has about a total of 125 employees working at a stretch to meet tight deadlines. The findings of the study reveals the level of awareness, the fact that the employees do experience an imbalance between their work and family lives, the factors which leads to the above issue and the methods which could be used to overcome the situation. Based on the findings several recommendations are discussed at the end of the report.…
The question that arises then is that if the families, and many times the women in question too, are not keen on relocation or on-site deputations, how would that reflect on their career graphs, how can one then claim that the families support the women to take up more challenging responsibilities at work?…
There are obvious disadvantages to children having a working mother, but there are not so obvious advantages. Working mothers tend to teach their children independence, curiosity, and ambition. While the disadvantages often come from society’s pressures that a working mother’s career may be more important than her family. How do mothers choose what works best for their family? Working mothers who choose to work outside the home offer advantages and disadvantages to their families.…
It is hard to say if it better for a child to have a mother who is always home. It is also hard to say if a home as a whole is better off with a woman who is there to tend only to that home and not a career. There are obviously two sides to this argument but the main question is how can a working mom strike the right balance to keep her family from suffering because she is not there all the time. It once was about who is the better sex men or women, but things have changed. These days it is a fight between two kinds of moms. Working and nonworking mothers are constantly fighting and debating to figure out who is the better parent. Millions of women must think it is possible because one thing is for sure and that is the fact that being a stay-at-home mom is becoming way more popular. In a 2005 study, the U.S. Census Bureau reported an estimated 5.6 million stay-at-home moms. Which is a pretty massive 22% increase from 1994.…
First and foremost, many women face a difficult decision of whether or not they should be a working mother instead of a housewife. This decision is not made easily since there are various factors that can influence their decisions. According to the article “Working and non-working mothers: comparative study”, “there is 200 questionnaire survey send out, and got the returned shown 50.5% of 101. The rates of 78% were working mothers and 22% were non-working mothers. The working mother had better mental health than the non-working mothers, but had more stress of women was not having enough time to take care of their family. For the non-working mothers, their social life was too lack.” (Rout et al, 264-275). As illustrated above, clearly women are in the tug-of-war of choosing what they want to become. Such pressure to decide intensifies when women are fully aware of the time they need to devote to their family and work as well as the responsibilities…
mothers, either because of divorce or because their parents were never married ; and wives and mothers in record numbers are rushing out of the home into the…
In these days it is very common for the husband and wife both to have full-time jobs. In each family everyone is equal. Everyone has paid the effort for their family. When the husband and wife both have jobs, they both have the responsibility to take care of their family. Some people say that housework is the wife’s job. That is wrong and unfair. There is no reason to put all the housework on women’ shoulder.…
There are many discussion about it that some says that women successfully in both manner carrier as well as Home.First you make your carrier and then think for family. In that condition you can manage both. If your partner also helpful its really go nice.If all thing depend only on you in that case its hard to manage.…
Leave work at the office. Bring problems from office to home, will not allow us a total disconnection but increasing the likelihood of developing stress and take time to rest.…
re vital role in society in this century, the stereotypical view of women as house makers still stay. One of the reason to why many debate that women should not work after marriage is because it is the wife's duty to stay at home to look after the children. However, and in my opinion, I disagree with this sentiments. Women, in fact, should work after marriage.…