It is hard today for any mom whether they stay at home or they work. I believe that many moms feel a pull to continue their careers and to stay at home to raise their children. We are expected to choose and it is a hard choice. Either path you pick is riddle with regret. I still question why this has to be a uniquely female choice. There is no term for working father but working mom is commonly thrown around. While I believe that progress has been made and men spend more time in the day to day raising of the family it is still skewed.
The following video shows the perils of working mothers but look at the tone throughout the video.
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In this video besides shamelessly plugging Pledge the tone to me is infuriating. They are talking about the perils of a working mom and are not questioning the reason why this peril has befallen them. The amount of women who go to sites like the ones mentioned in the video are large. If we have a growing body of women out there who feel overwhelmed and at their wits end there is a problem.
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Interesting video, I found two points or words raised of particular interest:"guilt and compartmentalize".
ReplyDeleteBoth references made to women who return to work and have children. Both words that women are socialized to have difficulty with (guilt coming from a society that raises women to put everyone else first). I can't imagine a web site for working males where the #1 suggestion from men who visit the site based on avoiding guilt.
Second, compartmentalizing. Research has always suggested males do well with this (maybe because we are not so good at multi tasking!). Actually I feel men are good at shutting out other issues in their life and focusing on what is before them (such as an important meeting at work, even though his child is ill at home) is once again due to the fact males are not raised to put all others before himself. He can focus on what is important to him, and also his role as a father is often based on making money at his career. He can therefor rationalize his focus being on work rather than an ill child because work and cash flow is a part of fatherhood; and besides his wife is probably already on her way from work to the school to deal with their sick child.
Hi. This video seems almost laughable. I wonder how Jen and Barb are able to complete and podcast/you tube video but yet are so stressed out with their multiple jobs. One of the parts that struck me was the conversation around volunteering. One woman only wanted to be apart of the school community if she was able to be around her children. Understandable. But then the other woman said that she was behind the scenes and that it is important as well but that people who should really do that are people who do not have a 'job'. What type of 'job' was she talking about? Is she now saying that being a parent is not a full time job but a part time job that will always leave room for volunteering. Shouldn't all people that are part of a community be encouraged to support it in some way or another?
ReplyDeleteThe Pledge advertisement would have been more accepted in my opinion had they been more blunt about it at first. Instead of showing the women quickly wiping down their modern tables with Pledge. It saved the day!