It Has Often Been Believed That The Sole Purpose Of Women

Does everybody think or feels the same about childbirth around the world? This question above is a question that has always been in my mind. Now that I got the opportunity of choosing a topic to do research. I decided to choose childbirth and culture. This research paper is going to talk about how different cultures and countries look a birth in an entirely different manner. Some look at birth as a battle and others as a struggle. And on some occasions, the pregnant mother could be known as unclean or in other places where the placenta is belief to be a guardian angel. These beliefs could be strange for us but for the culture in which this is being practiced is natural and a tradition. I am going to be introducing natural and c-section childbirth. And, the place of childbirth is going to be a topic in this essay. America is one country included in this research paper.

Women are known to be the nurturing part of human nature. It is women who birth and generally care for the young of human kind; however, the roles of women have progressed to be so much more in today’s society. Now women are looked to not only as a homemaker, but a breadwinner as well. In many families, the women provide a major source of income and are responsible for the wellbeing of the family. “More than a quarter century has passed since Arlie Hochschild’s The Second Shift powerfully made the case that women cannot compete fairly with men when they are doing two jobs and men are doing only one.” (Moravcsik). He goes on to say that women’s roles have shifted to being able to balance a job and a family at one time. Despite the many jobs that

The days of mom staying at home full-time are long gone for most families. More women are their family’s breadwinners than ever before. Heather Boushey in The New Breadwinners, states “Women are more likely to work outside the home and their earning are more important to their families well-being than ever before in our nation’s history” (31). In families today there’s no one staying at home in the day, so there no one there when kids come home from school with everyday life.

For years, society has encouraged women to engage in labor force participation and to create a career outside of the household. The feminist movement discouraged women to continue their roles as caregiver because it was considered a low status position in society. To be considered successful in life, one needed to achieve a high paying career and as everyone knows the job of mom is free of charge. The movement also portrayed the traditional family structure as a way to keep women confined to their homes, rather than a structure built with the main idea of women having complete focus on the most valuable job of their lives “Motherhood.” The feminist movement was to fight for women’s rights but at the same time the movement forced mothers to make a difficult decision of either entering the workforce and leaving children in daycare or continuing the homemaker’s lifestyle. After many years of liberation for women in the workforce there has been a decline in the number of women who continue a career after childbirth. Contrary to the feminist belief, mothers are finding a greater sense of fulfillment staying at home to raise children rather than focusing on a career. Data taken from the U.S Census Bureau in 2005 shows the amount of stay at home mothers is about 5.6 million (Zamora). More women are replacing the 1950s “housewife” stigmas and renouncing their roles in society with a new high status of “domestic engineers.” Although mothers who chose to stay at home might have a harder time reentering the workforce and many think it will make families struggle financially, more mothers of young children should stay at home instead of returning to the workforce. This will allow mothers to have more efficacious time to spend with children. Along with the unaffordable cost of quality child care causing

After the exercise, the women in the group felt safe and well informed, they expressed how the class alleviated their fears by giving them various options. Some of the women expressed their concerns. They feel women are vulnerable to making irrational decisions. The instructor encouraged them to make the decision with the gynecologist before the labor begins and most importantly, their partner should support them through the labor stages. After the end of the session, the instructor asked the participants to take an online survey to evaluate her performance and their understanding of the material.

Women are traditionally known to take on the caring role of the family, and therefore may not be able to work full time as they are required to take care of kids and perform other unpaid caring roles.

①Education, jobs, friends, and money are increasingly changing the image that women have of themselves. 
 (a). To my great despair, an article in the website called “The cambridge student”on 11 April 2015 spoke out 'in defence of the housewife' Meggie Fairclough said that. In the quest for women to become 'independent', an older ideal of womanhood has been weakened: that of the woman as housewife.
 (b). Getting well education is seen as an escape from the country's 'confines' – a chance to make one's fortune independently. 
 (c). It’s as if young women can only come in two types, with one going through higher education, off to save the world, and the other staying at home, with a perceived lack of academic ability or potential. 
② People have the solid idea, which is working women=high educated=better contribution to society,
 (a). People pay more attention to women who have a higher level education because they think those women contribute to our society. 
 (b). In contrast, according to the survey, 7 key findings about stay-at-home moms last updated on April 8, 2014 on the website, PewResearch center, shows that Stay-at-home mothers are younger, poorer and less educated than their working counterparts. Those labels show and make people think housewives are lake of ability, so that they don’t give enough respect to them.

Many consider that delivering a child via vaginal birth is something any woman can do, especially in modern times. We often discount the trauma that mother or child may undergo during this time. We, in the United States, no longer think that giving birth might be a matter of life and death. However, there are countries in which this still holds true.

We all have difficult decisions to make as we grow older, and sometimes we are lucky to make the right choices that will create our future. Men and women are always choosing what to do, what to wear or what to eat. But, while men has 99 decisions to make, women have 100 decision, including her children’s birth. Up to the present time, medicine has only developed two types of births, the natural (or vaginal) and the surgical (also known as Caesarian section) birth (Charlish). Mothers all around the world have been struggling to choose whether they will be delivering naturally or surgically. In Brazil, private hospitals and their doctors are being accused of not respecting the women’s decisions and performing a c-section against the women’s

In the past, there were heavily enforced gender expectations regarding male and female roles in the household and in the workforce. Women were expected to stay at home, and the men were expected to bring home the income. Since the feminist movement took off in the 1960s and 1970s, more and more women have been working outside the household. In addition, more men have chosen to stay home and be the primary care providers. This has resulted in a shift in the gender expectations that were previously dominant. Nevertheless, even with these changing gender norms, in cases where one parent needs to stay home, it is still women who are stepping up to the plate in order to fulfill the role of “primary caretaker” regardless of their career goals or current work situation. As the movement has intensified, though, it seems as if those who are choosing to stay with the “traditional” gender roles are being criticized, mostly by working mothers, for their choices. Stay-at-home moms in particular are perceived differently and, in some cases, looked down upon and criticized for not taking advantage of all that their gender has done to pave the way for their equality. Although it used to be the expectation for the female to stay at home to keep house and take care of the children, the women who live this lifestyle today are not “anti-feminist” because of this choice; they are not being forced into this

From a clinical perspective a cesarean delivery (Cesarean section or “C-section”) is the delivery of the baby through an incision in the abdomen and through an incision in the uterus. However, from a maternal perspective, a cesarean is not just a routine medical procedure, it is the emotional, long-anticipated arrival of an infant. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, almost 1/3 of all babies born in the United States are delivered surgically, making cesareans one of most common operating room procedures. In recent years, some hospitals have begun to implement small, but significant changes to the cesarean. The goal of the “gentle cesarean”, sometimes also referred to as “family-centered cesarean”, is to make the procedure

In conclusions, there are different ways to give childbirth at. There are different benefits for each one and some have the same benefits. It is a decision to find the right childbirth option for the parents or parents to be. No matter which childbirths parents to choose, the outcome always should be to deliver a healthy baby.

Walsh (2009) identified this denial as disembodiment which has a traumatizing effect. Sadly, its effect results into a dehumanizing separation of the woman’s body from being making it (body) easy to manipulate (Foucault, 1973). This is exemplified when pain during induction of labour over powers the woman, disconnecting her from her corpus (McCourt, 2014; Walsh, 2009; Akrich and Pasverer, 2004; Foucault, 1973). However, despite the instrumental need of the institution, the notion of risk and an institutionalized behavior, obstetricians and midwives can tactfully soften their professional skills to facilitate a natural birth (Walsh, 2009; Berg, 2005). Midwives caring for women in the obstetric unit, can serve as guardians for providing woman-centred care, support women’s choices by acting as a buffer, shutting the door for privacy and guarding her in a space where she can labour undisturbed (Downe, 2008; NICE, 2008; Garland, 2010). Midwives must however feel empowered in order to empower women (Hermansson and Mårtensson, 2011). An empowered midwife will use her expertise to improve outcomes of practice, parents’ awareness of available resources and adaptation for the parenting process (Lucas, 2010; Hollins-Martin and Bull,

In different parts of the world it would be seen as a selfish for a woman or mother to go out and pursue her desired career path. Because it is expected that she should be a homemaker and raise the children as her job. These feelings can be fueled by what some societies think the correct expectations are for the role of a ‘Mother’. For a long time now there has been the misconception in many cultures that women should sacrifice

Women are typically the nurturers in the home. Mother`s have been responsible for childcare, PTA, grade-mothers, and sports moms for many generations before males began filling the roles because females were working outside the homes. Although it is not uncommon in todays society to see dad`s stay at home and fill the roles typically filled by women; it is a relatively new role for males in the last 25 years. The National Organization for Women, 2012, reports that, “Different societal expectations for wives compared to husbands and mothers compared to fathers”. Taylor, 2000, quotes Rita Donaghy, president of the Trades Union Congress, stating, “We want to see a labor market which does not penalize mothers but rather uses their skills in a modern and dynamic economy”. Women with children face issues such as childcare, adequate after school programs, leaving children unattended, and the cost for such care. While