Working Mothers Definition: 1.Independenсe

Should women choose between family and career
Introduction
Working mothers are now the rule rather than the exception. In the United States today, more
than half of mothers with young children work, compared to about one third in the 1970s.
Women have been moving into the workforce not only for career satisfaction but also
because they and their families need the income. The labor force participation rate of mothers
with children under 18 was 72.3% in 2019. For single, widowed or divorced moms, the rate
was 77.6%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
When we think about mothers' work-life balance, we often picture two distinct options. A
new mom can stay home with the kids and put her career on hold, or she can return to work
and face the stress and guilt of leaving her baby each day. The reality, though, is that
navigating work-life balance is much more complicated than those polarized choices suggest.
Working Mothers Definition
Working mothers are the ones who move out of the house for the purpose of earning money
and also maintain household chores. The trend of being a housewife is now changing with the
change and need of the time.
Career
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1.Independenсe
The children become independent as they don’t find their mother at home all day long and
thus they are left with no other option than doing their homework, breakfast, packing bags for
school, preparing uniforms and all such things of their own.
Women are independent: Modern women take care of their needs and don't have to extend
their hands to fulfill their simple desires. Many women take care of their parents because they
don't have a son or their son is not financially strong enough to support his parents.
2. Role models to their children: A big adieu to that time when women were pursued as only
domestic servants in the family. Modern women work to earn a living as well as do
household chores. They are a perfect role model for their children.
The working mothers are nowadays helped by their spouse in household chores after
returning from work.By seeing the fathers being a helping hand to mothers, children learn
good habits and inculcate manners of helping others as well as their mothers, thus in this way
good habits are inculcated in them.
3. Financial stability: When they also contribute money to their family, they get a stake in the
decision-making process. A working mother also adds to the advantage of helping the family
financially. It is beneficial as a woman becomes a helping hand to the husband in terms of
money.
4. Working moms are less prone to depression: When they have things other than at home to
think about, they are less prone to depression. Depression will harm parenting. Working
moms are less prone to depression as they seldom keep thinking about unpleasant things at
home.
5. If we try to calculate what is more beneficial from the ec. point of view – staying at home
or working –the second option will win. Statistics
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1. Time crunch: Working moms can't take part actively in the parenting of their children.
When a mother comes back tired and stressed, she may not like to ask her child about the
project she has to submit the next day. Since working women have to leave their babies at
home, they can't participate in the growth of their babies. She would long to witness her
baby's first walk, hear her baby's first word, her baby's smile, everything.
3. Health issues may arise:
A working mother has to manage both house and office both at an equal level that too on a
daily basis. Having the same routine regularly without any rest may lead to health issues and
other problems which also ruins the family life.
4. Children may feel alone and fall into a bad company:
Children get freedom in excess when they don’t see mothers around to stop them from vices.
This way they may fall into bad company and inculcate vices in them. Not only this, they
might feel alone and find for the company as mothers are not available for kids due to work.
5. Multiple people to do her chores: When she works in the office, she has to employ people
like a maid, nanny to do her chores. As a result, in the quest for financial independence, she
becomes dependent on a lot of people.
6. No helping hand:
If the husband is not helping the wife in household chores or she is a single mother, it may
cause difficulty for her as she then has to work 24 hours all alone without any help.
7. Suffering harassment at workplace:
Working women often have to suffer harassment like eve-teasing to even sexual harassment.
Many women had to go through all such on a daily basis. Whereas non-working woman does
not have to face all this.
There is no dilemma as you can combine both
The ultimate win-win solution to the problem of choosing between your career and family is
to replace the ‘or’ with ‘and’; it is not career OR family, it is career AND family!
Making a choice between family or career no longer makes sense. Back in the day, society
had more clearly defined roles. But, with changes in our realities comes changing patterns of
thought. Rather than feeling guilty for dedicating time to work, spend that energy on being
fully present when you are with your family.
Example
Finding the right balance of when to push for a career and when to push for a family is highly
subjective. However, two important considerations that come into play are wealth planning
and education.
There’s a chance that you will have worked for a few years after graduating from college. In
this case, you may want to pursue a master’s or doctoral degree, but you also want to start a
family. How can you balance both?
You need to be solution-oriented because there is always a way. One example to solve this
conundrum would be to attend online college like the University of the People. That way, you
can potentially start your family, earn your higher education on a flexible schedule, and then
re-enter the workforce with a higher degree. This can kill two birds with one stone as your
higher degree will earn you more money. That way, you can potentially work less hours than
you would have otherwise had to and still be able to support your family.
Workplace Policies are Changing
Cultures and societies shift over time. That’s why as norms change, so do structures that are
in place to accommodate them. Although most places still have a ways to go in terms of
work/family balance, companies are beginning to take notice of how important it is. For
example, most countries have laws about maternity and paternity leave.
Quote: Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg:
“When a couple announces that they are having a baby, everyone says ‘Congratulations!’ to
the man and ‘Congratulations! What are you planning on doing about work?’ to the woman.
The broadly held assumption is that raising their child is her responsibility. In more than
thirty years, this perception has changed very little.” But we are changing it now.

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