Motherhood Is A Successful Woman

Since the beginning of time women were never treated as equals to men. Men have always been seen as stronger and the providers for their families. Women are often viewed as the nurturers and caregivers for their family. Women’s role in society has always been to make sure that everyone is happy and healthy while, men go out and work to make sure that women have the necessities they need to keep everyone happy.

1.) Overall main topic of this book connects between the issue of motherhood and feminism. One major key point I found while reading this book is the author, Amber Kinser explains the growth and progress of the role of mothers in the american society meaning how the roles have changed overtime. A major theme of Kinser’s book is that the public debates may focus on mothering, but the issues affect us all.  Cutting back on health care for women, on education, and on jobs for teachers, social workers and others in the service sector have their greatest impact on mothers, but they affect all of us. Motherhood becomes a symbol for how men and women, single and married, gay and straight, deal with the need for individual options and the need to act for the good of others.

Women are portrayed to be naturally maternal and caring when men can be rugged and tough. Even in today’s society, women are looked down upon if they go out without their children or go to work and leave their children with a babysitter. The hypocrisy between men and women and their capabilities is

When highly paid professional women leave jobs to stay home and take care of their children they are considered ?good mothers?. Also, when they do decide to work outside the home they are judged as ?selfish? and ?bad mothers?. However, the expectation of poor women is the exact opposite. Poor women are often criticized for staying home to take care of their children and are expected to leave the home and work for wage in order to receive the ?good mother? approval from society.

In her interviews with woman she was sure to interview very well educated women and those that strived for mere perfection. One thing is that the men in the lives of these women were not supportive and not mentioned of much. The men and society of today have placed a lot of responsibility on a woman’s shoulders when it comes to the child. It is the woman who makes the decision or is given the task to make the heavy decisions regarding the child’s future. Because of this many women choose to stay at home to be sure that the children will receive everything that they deserve and that they are not lacking in any area. Another issue that she reviews is that employers do not work with moms at all. For example she talked about the scenario where two moms brought a solution to their problem to management yet it failed to receive approval instead one mother was offered more money (Guest, 2011). Employers are not very flexible when it comes to mothers and don’t provide the proper care that is needed for a child. Since men are the ones that don’t carry the responsibility of the child’s well-being having proper day care is not a factor for them. Then there is the cost of day care which is high and can at times not compare to what the individual is making.

Mothers devoted to their families were developed as an idea of “republican motherhood” and elevated women to higher statuses as keepers of the nation’s conscience.

Is there a common attitude society has towards women, and their roles as mothers? Betty Rollin, American journalist, reporter, and author, believes there is. She calls it the motherhood myth. She writes about this subject in her essay, “Motherhood: Who Needs It?” The myth is the idea that all normal women want and need to become mothers (Rollin 286). Rollin believes this is false, and argues that there is no biological drive or instinct, that makes women want to become mothers. Society reinforces this myth into us, through many forms of propaganda. Rollin argues against the belief that women’s most important role in life is to become a wife, and mother. She calls for the freedom to choose, and explains that becoming a mother is not an

For many years, Society has always been in favor of men and has cataloged women as mom as an easy way to call us with no offense. In reality, men believe that bringing a baby to this world is just a favor to a women in order to make its family complete, but most of the time men do not take care of the baby like women do. For example, when a baby born, women have less time to sleep. More specifically, if the baby cry in the middle of the night, the woman is the one who wakes up and go to check what happened with the baby while men continue their sweet dreams. Also, women lose its freedom because their baby becomes the foreground of their life and her friends start being part of the background; however, men do not think like that.

One trait that will never be lost within society is how we adapt to motherhood. Motherhood is passed down by modifying and modernizing, including present day. At the time of American colonization, two mothers from different backgrounds use their mothering styles to demonstrate their determination by going through something unfathomable. In Green Blanket Feet’s and Mary Rowlandson's survival entry, situation shapes their styles of motherhood. Both, however are influenced in different ways, such as Rowlandson’s situation changes her into a “me first” mother, whereas Green Blanket Feet’s situation changed her into an unpredictable mother.

In the short story “Neighbor Rosicky” it quotes, “Dat widder woman bring her daughters up very nice” (Rosicky, 2). Notice that it is not the father they credit, it is the mother. Both short stories suggest that women’s role in society is to be a wife and a

Women and men have had certain roles in society that were understood amongst them to be specified for their particular gender. Males were known to have the leading role as head of the house hold and the bread winner while the woman’s duty was to stay at home and take care of the house and children. While many people years ago deemed this way of life and practice to be the right and ethical thing to do, times have changed and so this kind of treatment towards a woman’s equality must be questioned. Even though times have changed, this mindset of a woman’s ability to be as good as a man has not completely gone away. In today’s society a woman contributes to the economy and her family as equally as that of a man. Therefore, women should share equal rights and opportunities as their gender counterparts.

The 20th century was the first time women were given many types of job opportunities in America. There has been rapid progress throughout the years regarding gender equality, but there is still much to be done, especially in terms of parenting. Parenting has so much to do with gender inequality because parents set limits for their daughters and sons due to outdated gender roles. Parents have set limits because they have different hopes and standards for their daughters and sons, but some parents have been changing and making sure both their children, regardless of gender, can achieve the same hopes and standards. Although equal rights in the past couple of decades has changed positively, many people still have misogynistic beliefs, especially parents, because of the way they were raised.

Not only are woman subjected to society norms based on their personality characteristics, but also on their life choices and “domestic responsibilities” questions arise for woman like “who will care for you children and husband”. Montague Kern and Paige P. Edley state that women will continue to be “criticized for abandoning their traditional family roles” (1). This topic is not something that is brought up to their male counterparts. I don’t believe I have ever heard a man be questioned on who was going to assume the responsibility of raising their children. So until society genuinely accepts that raising children and other domestic issues are shared endeavors, then women will continue to face this barrier. (Robson, 208)

The roles of men and women have drastically altered the past century and men now take on some responsibilities that were once viewed as tasks of a woman. As a result women have been able to advance their careers, express their political views, and have become equals next to men in society, which illustrates that had women not been discriminated against and viewed as the homemaker for so long, equality between men and women would have occurred ages ago. In my vision of society an individual's sex would not inhibit one from fully participating in the activities of the community that he or she desired. The burden of childbirth for women would still be present but after the child was born, men would play a more prominent role in the tasks of raising his son or daughter. Sharing the benefits and burdens of child-rearing responsibilities will allow both the male and female to maintain steady employment and balance their schedules to make time for family and a career. Females that wish to enter a profession will be accepted solely upon their abilities, not their gender, and seen as equals in the work place. Should a working woman choose to start a family she deserves a sufficient amount of time away from work (with pay) to care for herself and her newborn baby without being hassled by her employer for not being entirely committed to her job. Also, a man should receive certain benefits

Partly because of this, motherhood is regarded as a most noble and honourable calling in Islamic society. Women have been given the role of motherhood because Allah has blessed them with the maternal instinct enables them to take care of children. This is supported in the Quran: “Moreover, the Quran has a special recommendation for good treatment of mothers.” Mothers have great respect and honour in Islam “Fear God, in whose