Working mothers are so much more stressed and that's horrible June 27, 2019 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 12,434 |
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According to the largest survey of its kind, analysing measures of chronic stress in 6,025 participants nationwide, neither flexible hours nor working from home significantly lowered women’s stress levels. This goes against common thinking that flexitime is the answer to the stress induced by what used to be called “having it all” and has now resurfaced as the equally mythical “work-life balance”. What did have a positive impact? Working less.
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So, what is the solution? As is often the simple answer to the most complex feminist issues: more choice. The chronic stress experienced by working mothers is the result of structural inequality. It’s a manifestation of how undervalued, unsupported and unfashionable the work of mothering continues to be. We live in a society where looking after your own child between the ages of one and three is seen either as a necessity or a privilege. That choice has been excised from one of the most significant experiences in a woman’s life, as the number of working mothers with dependent children has risen by more than a million over two decades, is not just a source of stress. It’s a scandal.
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It’s a manifestation of how undervalued, unsupported and unfashionable the work of mothering continues to be.
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We live in a society where looking after your own child between the ages of one and three is seen either as a necessity or a privilege.
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yurble
Mothering is optional. It is a choice. There is ample choice to look at the shit pile that is parenthood and say, "No thanks!" You can see that you don't have the support from your partner that you desire and opt out.
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His young middle-aged secretary, who actually is very smart and a hard worker and could be successful at doing almost anything, but chooses to be a secretary, had twins from likely a sperm bank or just a random donor. It might be elitist to say, but clerical workers never did such an expensive endeavor back in the day, but this, everyone can have it all attitude, now if u make 35-55k a yr, you somehow get the money to have this fertility treatments w/ no hubby. Anyway, when her twins became 5 and entered kindergarten, she said to male friend..."I'm so glad they are getting older and entering school, it makes it a bit easier for me." OK, she has her 2 kids, and now it is getting easy for her. You think she was done, right? No, she promptly (purposely) gets pregnant again!!!!! She's highly likely a lesbian, so this is no oops/accident. I. just. don't. get. it. And, neither did male friend. It goes to show, even the intelligent and the PNB, are always doing nonsensical things when it comes to breeding.
Re: Working mothers are so much more stressed and that's horrible June 28, 2019 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,712 |
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Which brings up a personal issue of mine: How does one relate socially to nurses, that is, socially and not as a patient? Knowing their job is so stressful and demanding, you never know if saying "hi" might set them off on you. Sometimes mom and me would have this conversation:
Mom: "MY STAFF DOESN'T DO ANY WORK! MY BOSS IS MEAN! I HAD TO CLEAN UP SHIT! I HAD TO WORK A DOUBLE!!! I'M READY TO CRY!
Me: I don't know what career to do, (a typical teenage question)
Mom: Are you interested in Nursing?
Re: Working mothers are so much more stressed and that's horrible June 30, 2019 | Registered: 10 years ago Posts: 2,364 |
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freya
This reminds me of a woman I know who has two horses. She has complained that she has to either pay someone else to house them or rent a place with a barn. She has also complained about food and medicine costs. And the fact that she has to have two (because herd animals) and that she is the only one who knows how to take care of them out of her house, so she has to do everything. And of course, the time investment.
Sounds like the author and it is 100% self-inflicted. Last time I checked no one was forced to have children or horses.
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This reminds me of a woman I know who has two horses. She has complained that she has to either pay someone else to house them or rent a place with a barn. She has also complained about food and medicine costs. And the fact that she has to have two (because herd animals) and that she is the only one who knows how to take care of them out of her house, so she has to do everything. And of course, the time investment.
Sounds like the author and it is 100% self-inflicted. Last time I checked no one was forced to have children or horses.
Hey, freya, it's worse than that-- horses ARE herd animals, but you DON'T HAVE TO HAVE ANOTHER HORSE to satisfy their herd instinct. Any companionable animal will suffice. Goats, cats...there have been plenty of horses with companion chickens. She has two horses because 1) she's totally ignorant of what the herd instinct actually entails, in which case she really should educate herself about having horses or 2) she wants two but doesn't want to do any of the associated work, in which case she probably should have none.Is she a breeder, too? She sounds that level of ignorant/stupid and/or whiny.
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