Mothers are greatly affected by the strain between family and work roles. It makes it extremely difficult for mothers to stay in the workforce because of the current work structure inflexibility towards family. Working full time becomes hard if the mother want to spend quality time with her child. Since mothers are viewed by society as the primary caregiver, being a mother damages the reputation of a full time employee. It is common for mothers to be forced to work part time. Although part time work allows mothers the time they need for family, there are also many disadvantages in working part time.…
Women are fortunate enough to gain back their knowledge from their previous job, by joining the workforce and contributing financially for their family. Motherhood is not a paid job; there are no raises or benefits. By working, mothers receive a different kind of fulfillment, they get praised and paid. Mothers are admired and respected after having newborn children and rejoining the workforce because they are able to balance not only being a new mother, but also committing part of the day to work. Anna Quindlen, in “Off to Work She Should Go,” believes that if your mother has been micromanaging your homework since you were 6, it’s hard to feel any pride of ownership when you do well. By doing so, the child can’t learn from their mistakes and disappointments (483). Stay at home mothers tend to be overbearing with their children. As a result, children will grow up not knowing how to accomplish different situations on their own. Mothers who work part time can still guide their children in the right direction without doing everything for them. This gives the mother time away from her children, forcing them to handle different problems by themselves. Typically, mothers who work full time feel guilty that they are missing out on raising their child. However, working part time can save women from that stress. Mothers can be an employee for half of the day, knowing that they will spend the remainder of the day with their…
In the article, The Second Shift, Arlie Hochschild explains that the household responsibilities that a wife and mother takes care of, aside from working her paid job, roughly adds up to fifteen hours longer each week than men( Hochschild, 259). The article asserts that even though both parents have careers, it's usually the mom who also works the second shift at home. The second shift included household chores in addition of working outside the home (Hochschild, 260). One reason why women feel the need to juggle between working and caregiving is because they feet more responsible for home and their children (Hochschild, 261). Women more than men are trying to control their profession work life and also maintain their home. I believe this unequal distribution of unpaid labor is largely connected to traditional gender roles.…
A housewives work is not acknowledged by some people because it is not seen as a job. A job involves hard work, long hours and dedication to your work. But a housewife’s work is a real job they put in more hours into ensuring the household is in living conditions than some people do at their day to day jobs. Also the work of a housewife is very continuous back breaking work. For example a housewife has to get up early to wake and feed the family, then clean the house, dishes, and wash clothes. It should be accepted and appreciated more because its work that most people don’t want to do. Even though it is not considered a job the work being done should be rewarded by the people the work is being done for. The family of the housewife should respect and honor the work done by the mother because if there was no housewife than the house would be in shambles. In the end a family shouldn’t take everything a mother does for them for granted.…
are stuck." The imbalance appears at work and at home: Working mothers have become ordinary, but stay-at-home…
Such accusations from society are ludicrous; millions of women maintain a balance between work and nurturing their family, but they do so with difficulty. However, with birth rates only increasing annually, it is difficult to prove that working women are not doing their part as mothers. Unfortunately, women have hardly advanced in their fight for equality since "Backlash" was published. Though federal law now requires that all women receive at least eight weeks of maternity leave , mothers are still plagued by the problems of child care affordability. The article points out that the availability of affordable child care for the average working in women is fairly scarce. In 1993, it cost an average of $215-$329 a month to put one preschool-age child into child care. With the need for more child care facilities rising,…
Parents often try to balance their role in the family as well as their role in the workforce. After the birth of the child parents are to make decisions about staying home or returning to work.…
And because their work isn't quantified, they disappear from pictures of the economy. This exposes women to higher risks of poverty in old age or in the event of divorce. These risks are aggravated by the built-in bias of law and policy toward paid employment. In “The Price of Motherhood,” Ann Crittenden said, “Unpaid work in the home does not count, Because unpaid child care is not measured and counted as labor, caregivers earn zero Social Security credits for rising children at home” (2001: 77). The present structure of Social Security often wipes out their contributions. Mothers work in caretaking should be valued as an economic investment because they nourish the next generations. There hard work should not be seen as private contributions. Providing care to the next generations should be also considered a public responsibility and the society should also contribute to the children of the future…
In the first article published in the New York Times (20 December 1977), Terry Martin Hekker titles the article “The Satisfactions of Housewifery and Motherhood” and describes the way that society views stay at home mothers. Hekker begins by describing her job as a housewife/ mother, in the…
While researching one parent choosing to stay home and raising children, I found supporting and opposing information. I found articles and books on money being a focus for both parents working.…
Since the proportion of mothers participating in the paid workforce has increased dramatically over recent years, women in the workforce have emphasized that the main problem they find the hardest is finding the balance between work and family life. As a result, a great deal of research attention has been paid to the impact of mother's employment on family life and on the wellbeing of children and parents. Research shows evidence that women continue to bear primary responsibilities for home and child care in spite of their entry in the labor force (Berardo, Shehan, & Leslie, 1987; Pleck, 1985).…
It is not common practice to associate economics with Should stay at home moms get a salary from the government? . Generally, Should stay at home moms get a salary from the government? would be thought to have no effect on our economic situation, but there are in fact some effects. The sales industry associated with Should stay at home moms get a salary from the government? is actually a 2.3 billion dollar a year industry and growing each year. The industry employs nearly 150,000 people in the United States alone. It would be safe to say that Should stay at home moms get a salary from the government? play an important role in American economics and shouldn't be taken for granted.…
How would you like to be a stay at home parent and get paid for it? Being paid for doing everyday house work, sounds ridiculous doesn’t it, because it is. Having a stay at home parent is something families choose to do; while one stays home the other maintains a job. Raising children and keeping up on chores is something that comes along with those responsibilities. As the government isn’t already in enough debt, who would pay a parent while they do their housework. Even though many people have been writing about this issue in the New York Times, I believe it’s a bad idea to pay people for housework.…
The main similarity between stay at home care and daycare is their cost. The average amount spent on a child from infant to 2 years old is $679 per month. The average amount of lost income for a stay at home parent, over the course of the child’s life peaks one million dollars. Each option comes with new costs that can add stress to the family unit, especially for parents who are pregnant…
Becoming a mother is a beautiful thing you get to carry your child for nine months and after those nine months, you finally get to meet the person you’ve created. Once you have met your baby, you are so in love you just want to spend as much time as you can with your baby. To do this you take maternity leave from your job. While your job is happy that you have had a baby they are not happy that you will be gone an extended period of time. Some employers and employees have a lot of rude things to say like “Maternity leave is a huge burden to a woman's employer. Why should the company pay extended absences for workers who aren't contributing?”(bustle.com) “Becoming a mother is a choice, so why should others have to pay for your choice?”(bustle.com) “But it's really unfair to men who have children, or other women in the workplace who choose not to have kids.”(bustle.com) As a woman who is about to give birth, you don’t want to hear comments like those. While some of those comments are hard to stomach some women deal with even more stress because their job doesn’t offer paid maternity leave. All of those employers who doesn’t want to pay women for their maternity leave came into this world from a woman. So how could they disrespect another woman and not pay her? Should women be fully paid while on maternity leave?…