Why Can T A Mother Be More Like A Businessman Summary

After reading Sharon Hays’s article “Why Can’t a Mother Be More Like a Businessman?” and watching the TV show Big Little Lies I found the character Renata Klein fits Hay’s concept of intensive mothering. Renata in my opinion is a victim of the standard of american motherhood. All the conflict she had with Jane was just fulfill her obligation of being a mother. Renata is a beautiful woman with successful career, she is the CEO of a corporation and on the board many company and she lives in a beautiful mansion by the ocean. Normally people would her set their life goals just like kids always say that they want to become Bill Gates when they grow up, however she is a mother. In our society’s standard it is not a mother’s job to be successful
She understand most people do not think she a good mother, because they know she is not a good mother in other people’s eyes, she a working mom who spent a lot of time on her career. That is the reason she express the over protective feeling to her daughter annabella in front of all the students and parents, after the first day of school when she thought Ziggy choked her daughter to try to prove to everyone that she is a good mother just like every other normal mother who fits hay’s idea of intensive mothering, she put her daughter above everything and she is willing to destroy the school to prevent her daughter gets hurt again. We can see that from the scene that she threatened little Ziggy who is only six years old, “If you even touch my little girl like that again, you gonna be in big trouble”(Renata). Also I believe the reason she hired a French Nanny and throw a luxury birthday party for her daughter to prove to other people that she has no difference with other mom, who loves her daughter just like any stay home mom and to make up all the time she was missing in her daughter’s life when she was busy at