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The problem is accentuated by the widening of the gap between rich and poor, that can be translated in this matter as an increase of difficulty for low-income families to have access to the much more expensive high quality day care options. There are several aspects that built such a controversial situation and the most important are certainly the cultural and economical ones. The huge growth in women’s independence and professional ambition, in addition to importance, of the last decades, caused the fall of the cultural basis that have always taken for granted the responsibility of the mother as the full-time caregiver (Chisholm 38). Now women are more willing to gain a successful and respectable place in society, and this can be achieved almost exclusively through hard work and full immersion in their jobs. Simultaneously, the economical situation of our society caused many families to depend on two incomes to satisfy the basic needs. In fact, the increase in the cost of living not sufficiently balanced by a relatively smaller rise in wages, and a greater attitude toward materialism and conspicuous consumption, have given women the same financial responsibility as men (Chilman 451). This aspect can be fully applied only on families with an average income or better, because professional daycare programs are pretty expensive and in some cases can reach prices higher than the minimum wage. Those factors

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.

Over the past five to six decades women have been entering the workforce in ever increasing numbers. Some enter because of financial need and others for professional and career goals. Whatever the reason, the result for the children is the same; they are in daycare. Many

Adolescence is the transition period between childhood and early adulthood, beginning at about age 11 or 12 and lasting until around age 18. Puberty marks the beginning of adolescence. During puberty, hormonal changes happen in the body, prepare the body for reproduction and change the size and proportions of the body. As the body undergoes this dramatic transformation, major changes happen in the brain as well.

Their employment choices is due to the area of where the women lives, about 97 percent of women when they interview for employment choose the job due to the location. Childcare has the same principle, many of these women need added help when it comes to childcare. The hours they work, the type of employment, and location are all due to the fact that they must provide for the child and make sacrificial choices that keeps the child in mind. Transportation becomes another issue for women, 12 percent of women study had cars, while 71 percent of the women did not have reliable transportation, or had the vehicle on occasional basis, and 17 percent never even owned a car.

My mother was a single mother of two and still held a fulltime job. Always excelling in her position. She worked hard and never lacked in her motherly duties. Being a mother is looked as a weakness in the job force. Men believe that women are incapable of being a great employees and mothers. The mommy track is helpful for mothers. it gives mother flexible hours to work so they also still care for their children. This is a great resource but often time when do use the available resource; their commitment to their position is questioned. Employers used to discriminate against mother and wives for employment due the fact that they might leave the job to become full time

Do women belong in the workplace? Should employers treat them differently because of their responsibilities in the home? The article “Female Company President: ‘I’m Sorry to all the Mothers I Worked With’” by Kathrine Zaleski, president and co-founder of PowerToFly, argues that women can be both successful mothers and employees if employers take the initiative to accommodate them. She believes that women have the ability and skills to become both valuable employees and involved mothers, but employers need to make adjustments in several common work practices in order to build women up to their full potential.

In the article “ A Mother's Day Kiss Off,” author Leslie Bennetts claims that even through all of the obstacles that women have had to go through to get to this point, they are still discriminated against when it comes to parenting. Bennetts explains how gender roles still exist. The author tries to give examples of how women should work to improve the roles of women with families. In the article “The Myth of Co-Parenting: How It Was Supposed to Be. How It Was.” author Hope Edelman claims it was not her choice to be the commanding “parent” (55). Throughout the article the author talks about the struggles her and her husband have had. Edelman thought marriage was 50/50, but figured out that that is not always true. The author

In today’s world, women become commonly seen as subordinate to men and that their only duty is to be a stay at home mom. This fallacy happens to

Although women’s equality is important here in the United States, women not men are expected to take care of their children no matter what. According to Paulette Light, co-founder of MomStamp (2013), 43 percent of woman who are highly educated and qualified for amazing careers

As xxx argued, gender inequality is not an ahistorical fact. Despite little differences, there is nearly no obligated or assigned role for women as caregivers in hunter-gatherer societies and they have decision-making power. In these societies, childcare was a responsibility of all people. Childcare became the responsible for the family, especially as a mother, after sedentism due to men’s increasing responsibilities in hunting and warfare. Colonialism, industrialization and globalization have done nothing other than furthering the gender inequality. By providing cost-free daycare services, which are funded by the taxes that paid by the all, governments can retransform the women’s role in the society and end the housewifization of the women. Regardless of their employment status, all women must have access to daycare provision and its costs should be covered by the governments to make the childcare to the responsibility of all society

One of the most frequently mentioned reasons to explain the pay gap between men and women is the fact that women leave the workforce to have children (Santos). Women are the only sex biologically capable of giving birth to children and in our patriarchal society, they are, more often than not, the ones to take care of the children they birth. When women reach their 30s, they “are most likely to have young children” (Santos). The choice that parents must make is between a working mother and paying daycare fees or stay-at-home mother and no daycare fees. According to Maricar Santos, childcare costs are “$11,666 per child, per year.” If a mother works full time one-third or more of her salary will go directly to childcare costs. If this

“There are many unreasonable prejudices against women, especially in the workplace. Not only that, there are also obstacles that obstruct a women’s right to choose. For example, the fact that many companies don’t let women return if they have to take time off because they are having a baby. Or the face that the fathers are often not granted leave at all,” was one person’s answer to this question. This person raised a very important point in that fathers are often not granted leave if their wife has a child. Feminism strives for equality between men and women, so if those feminist views were achieved within the workplace, it would not only benefit women, but also men. Men working in nursing or childcare would be taken more seriously with that equality in place. It is for the respect of men and women around different workplaces that feminism is a fair cause to

Summary: When having a baby, most people wish they would be introducing a baby boy into the family. In today’s society baby boys hold more of a stature on them rather a baby girl. A baby boy will turn into a man and a man is more likely to be listened to and be followed through out his life. Men have masculinity and that creates a desire to be the best something in anything that they wish to compete in and any parent can be proud of and their achievements that come with winning. While girls tend to only a be stay at home figure and that accomplishments are not publicized nor really looked at outside of the household. Somehow we find that women are actually better at most jobs that men hold such as manager positions or CEOs positions keeps

They argue that this media driven debate pins working mothers against stay-at-home mothers in order to “divert the dialogue away from the real issues such as affordable health care, quality childcare, gender and racial equality, fathers’ roles in parenting, media effects, fair wages and benefits, and family-friendly work arrangements” (204). They state that in this culture of mother-blame, mothers have been blamed for causing problems in regards to childhood development such as, “epilepsy, colitis, asthma, ulcers, arthritis, anorexia nervosa, and a multitude of more severe problems in children” (207). However, they argue that it is now “accepted that these disorders are in fact not caused by poor mothering…” (208). Another issue with the Mommy Wars debate is that it portrays a universal kind of woman – white, affluent, and heterosexual – ignoring the fact that there are many different kinds of mothers of all backgrounds, sexualities, and economic statuses – which can make those who are not reflected as the “average” mother, feel inadequate. The authors further argue that these messages that working mothers are harming their children are what discourage women from economic participation and achievement and can have a negative impact on a mother’s perception of herself - which in turn can affect her performance as a parent. It seems that the