...Running Header: Working vs. Stay Home Mothers 1 Research Paper Working vs. Stay Home Mothers Joseph Ochoa Com/172 September 18, 2012 Brenda Caine WORKING VS. STAY HOME MOTHERS 2 Children have such an amazing connection with their mothers, it is usually the first word they learn and the name they scream when they are hurt. Working mothers have stormed into the business world at full force in the last 20 years. This has had an impact on the children today, although mothers who stay home have more one on one time with their kids. According to Youngberg, “One significant, reoccurring issue specifically related to a mother’s decision of whether to be active in the workforce or be a stay-at-home mother involves the cognitive effects such a decision might have on children” (2011). While Children get as much attention at daycare as they would at home, stay at home mothers have a bigger impact than working moms. Mothers who work and mothers who stay home have the same busy lifestyle. Mothers need to get groceries, get the kids to baseball practice and better have a husband who is splitting the responsibilities to help take off the pressure. Mothers who work start taking their children to daycare at the young age of six to eight weeks. Heidi Brennan said on the Dr. Phil show “Children do not do well with large separations at a time” (Stay-At-Home Moms Vs. Working Moms, 2012). Because of...
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...GE347 Project Part 1 Ways Flexible Working Keeps Mothers In The Workplace Being a working mother is a challenge, but it has gotten a little easier in today’s workplace. Not that many years ago, when women gave birth, that usually meant giving up their jobs that they were accustomed to. Now a days, there are many different options that companies are providing in order to keep their mother workers. Some of those options are providing a part-time schedule for those new mothers, providing daycare services, and with providing work-from-home solutions. We will take a brief look at these different options, including some examples of companies that are and are not successfully with accommodating workplace mothers. Some work places can help a mother still hold a job, by changing their original work schedule to a part-time basis. This may not be the ideal option, but it still allows for the mother to take care of her child, and to have some income still coming in for their family. By having a part-time schedule, the new mothers are able to work around their baby’s times. The new reduced schedule, will allow for mothers to have someone watch their children around a time that works for them, as well as still being their child’s primary care-giver. Many mothers think highly of their part-time schedules. They want to be able to spend the time with their children as well as continuing down their career path. In earlier days, having a child and having a career was an either/or situation...
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...Research Paper Mech 333 Why Women Say “They Still Can’t Have It All” The Struggles of Working Mothers in Today’s Society Abstract Today’s society and economy is structured in a way that does not allow women to easily maintain a balance between being a professional and being a mother. Although there has been a constant rise of women entering the workplace as professionals, the economy and society still does not recognize that these professional women are also mothers. Many companies also believe that women are not suitable for executive jobs either. Young women of today, who plan on having a career as well as a family, accept that they will eventually have to make sacrifices in their career rather than their husband. This has led women to believe and say that “They Can’t Have it All”. The main reasons why women end up saying “They Can’t have it All” is due to factors such as unequal share of roles, an improper work-life balance, lack of flexibility, gender inequality and the lack of women executives and/or leaders in today’s society. In order for all of this to improve and to allow women “to have it all”, flexibility must be implemented into the workplace. Women should also assert equal housework in their home with their significant other. These two reasons alone can allow for more women to advance in the work place while still being a mother. This will help encourage and inspire young women to pursue executive, leading roles in which...
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...Welfare working for or against Single Mothers When I think of the word Welfare system, nothing but bad memories comes to mind. I remember when I had to wait in line for free government cheese, butter and peanut butter. Being on Welfare goes hand and hand with poverty in my mind. Living in the projects in Brooklyn, New York and the environment that surrounded me still has an effect on me today. This type of violent environment made my outlook on life dim and I had total disregard for life in my earlier years. I desired to have my dad present, but he went his own way in the 80’s about the same time when crack hit the streets of New York; my dad became a statistic to the crack game. My mother had to move us out of the city and away from our father. My mother thought moving us upstate would help us see a different life. Well yes it did, it showed me how a single mother has to work two jobs to get off of welfare. She was still driving about two hours one way to get to work and never was home to help her kids with their homework; or even to attend any of the sports games. I guess the worst part of it is when I was writing this I would use words like “is” instead of “was” for past tense like I still have very strong feelings today about poverty, welfare and single mothers because I know how it affected my family and me. In the United States there is a very big social problem with the Welfare System. First I will be going over the major legislation reform in the Welfare System...
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...Pamela Hendrix is a hard-working mother of six. While pregnant, Pamela was working at Frito Lay. Pam was a stocker for the company. The job of os stocker is to go to the assigned stores, bring in the products from Frito Lay from the back, and add more to the selves. Simple enough but something was different this time. Last year around end January, early February Pam was doing the normal thing she did. Moving products from the back to their correct shelving units, adding more to the empty spots along the shelves, packing up, then heading off to do more on her 18 hours days. Only, Pam was not only struggling with these tasks but she was seven months pregnant with her newest addition, Letty Elizabeth. The hours at each store were torture...
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...Change in dealing with discrimination regarding homosexuality: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof & All Mothers are Working Mothers Homosexuality refers to sexual attraction that one possesses for the person of his/her same sex. It is a tabooed term in most of the society and is often dealt behind the closed door. The reasons due to which homosexuality is considered a taboo vary from society to society. Sometimes it is the culture of a certain society that discourages homosexuality and sometimes it is the religion that forbids people from adopting same sex relationships. Either ways, this attitude of the society towards the homosexuals forces many people to suppress their homosexual identity and lead an unwanted life. Yet there are few people who rise above this suppression and become successful in observing their lives according to their freewill. A better picture of this situation can be drawn from the comparison of societies’ attitude towards the homosexuality and the counter response of protagonists regarding it in Tennessee Willaiams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) and Sangita Rayamajhi’s All Mothers are Working Mothers (2005). This paper thus aims to compare the societies’ responses towards the homosexual lifestyle of Brick and Shiela and show that although the settings of these two plays are different, the societies in which these plays are set displayed similar discriminative approach towards the protagonists’ homosexual identities. However, due to the increasing acceptability of...
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...Women today face a dilemma when deciding if working outside of the home is the best solution for their families. In the past, society has thought that mothers that worked outside of the home would be a detriment to the development of children. In recent studies it is being suggested that there is no harm emotionally, mentally or behaviorally to a child that has a working mother. Women around the world have been asking themselves what seems to be a simple question; however in reality, is very complex. Is it better to stay at home with the children, or work outside of the home? The answer to this question is not going to be the same for everyone. Overall, this is a very personal choice for the mother and family and what is best for one family may not be best for another. One of the main things that mothers think about when contemplating entering the work force is how will this impact the child. The good news is that there have been quite a few recent studies that help answer this tough, yet very personal question. During the last several decades, the number of women in the work force has been increasing at significant rates. For example, in 1940 only 8.6% of women with children worked in the United States (Wladis 1). As recent as of 2010, 64% of American mothers with children under the age of 6 works outside of the home (Mann 1). Women have been joining the workforce for many different reasons. One reason for this is because of personal aspirations, women have wanted to start...
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...I see working hard, they see hardly working “My Mother Never Worked” by Smith Smith-Yackel. One has to be cautious about stories; especially ones which might have truth to them. Smith writes a story about her mother’s life. Starting from the time her mother graduated from high school she has been a hard worker. She first worked as a full-time manager at a general store after becoming a full-time farmer’s wife. This is where the real work began: cleaning, milking, growing, weeding, canning, cooking, sewing, knitting, raising eight children and the list goes on. Later in her mother’s life she gets into a car accident which leaves her paralyzed from the waist down but even that did not stop Smith’s mother from working hard as a mother and a farmer’s wife. But when the social security operator reconnects with Smith she gets a harsh call of reality when the voice on the other side of the phone says, “…your mother never worked” (32). The purpose of this story is to show that no matter how much work you do if the government does not consider it work, it will not count as a “job.” There are many elements of style and structure in this story which include the setting, characters, events, the atmosphere, and style and how these relate to Smith’s purpose. The setting of this story takes place on a farm in Willmar, Minnesota from 1921 to 1970. There are many elements that depict the time frame in this story from the years of the pregnancies “In 1937 her fifth daughter was born […] 1939...
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...Working Mothers Many women today are facing choices that their mothers never had to face. One of these choices is whether or not to go back to work after having a child. The thought of going back to work was practically unheard of in the 1950's. However, in the 1990's it is not whether the mother will or will not go back to work, but rather a question of when. When did this choice to return to work become set in stone? Why do the mothers of today have to work outside the home versus working in the home, much like their mothers or grandmothers did? When one thinks of the subject of working mothers, many differing opinions come to mind. What will happen to the child, will the mother have sufficient time to bond with the baby, how will household chores be divided, and so on. When thinking of working women, two models come to mind. One of which is paid employment that has a protective and beneficial mediating effect. Employment protects women against certain negative aspects of being full-time homemakers and mothers, such as monotonous housework, dependence on the male partner for financial and emotional support, increases self-esteem because they are contributing to the world they live in. These women receive a renewed interest in life because they are in the thick of it. They are living life to the fullest. This model is the one that is constantly referred to as "bad" because it paints the woman as someone who does not really care about the effect of working will have on...
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...Name : Vigiline B. Apoli Title : “Mothers - at - Work and Stay - at - Home Mothers on Children’s Attitude towards Family and Learning: Basis for the Development of SOME (Strengthening Oneself through Mother’s Enduring) Love Program” Degree : Master of Education Specialization : Guidance and Counseling Key Concepts : Mother - at – Work, Stay - at - Home Mother, Children’s Attitude, Family, Learning, and SOME Love Program” Adviser : Peter Howard R. Obias, Ph.D. Statement of the Problem The purpose of the study was to find out the impact of mothers- at-work and stay-at-home mothers with their children’s attitudes towards family and learning. It also looked for a program that would help in further strengthening the love of their children towards their mother. Specifically, the study sought to answer the following: 1.Determine the profile of the respondents with regards to: a. mother – at - work b. stay – at - home 2.Determine the scores of attitudes of the respondents in terms of: a. family b. learning 3.Find the significant difference between the profile and attitudes of the respondents. 4.Develop a proposed program to be used as intervention based on the results of the study. METHODOLOGY Research Design This study used a descriptive survey method that utilized an attitude scale to determine the impact...
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...same role model in life. Everyone has a role model in there life for a reason. My role model is my mother. She is the one person in my life that I can go to for anything, she is a very hard worker, and she always tell me the truth even when it hurts. My mother, who taught me to walk my first steps, who danced and sang with my crazily, and who has always been there for me as my support whenever needed, is my role model and has made an unforgettable impact on my life. My mother is the one person in my life who I can go to for anything, everything good or bad. She always has my back through everything I do in life. She is the one person in my life who has kept me on a straight path to success, because she has always told me that failure isn't an option .If you set your heart and soul out to do something you must succeed in anyway possible I have Iearned from my mother to believe in god, and do my very best at everything I do. She has always told me and my brothers to treat people the way you want to be treated, and never take for granted the talents god has given you, because there are people out there less fortunate. I'm thankful for all the small things my mother has done for me, because its all the small things in life that really add up to something. My mother is a very hard worker, she has been working all of her life, and to this day she is still working. She never complained about her life. When she was sometimes tired from work, she still makes time for...
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...The Impact of Mother's Employment Research on the influence of income and mother's employment suggests that working is not a predictor of negative outcomes and working can have both positive and negative effects on student achievement. Regardless of whether they are single or married, mothers who work full-time often have less time to spend with their children, a condition that may lead to lower achievement and increases in behavior problems at school. For many single-parent families, however, children receive more benefits than harms from their mother's work. In addition to the income working brings into the family, African American children in elementary school actually do better in school when their mothers work outside of the home. The fact that children from low-income, single-parent families actually earn higher grades than children from two-parent homes with similar income suggests that single parents who work teach their children coping strategies that limit the impact of financial hardship, low parent involvement, and other risk factors. http://library.adoption.com/articles/single-parenting-and-childrens-academic-achievement.html Working mothers 'harm A-level chances' by LAURA CLARK, Children who are still too young for school when their mothers return to work may go on to get lower A-level results, research suggests. A pupil's chances of gaining at least one A-level fall by up to nine per cent for every year a woman works before the child reaches the age of five...
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...is a mother earns a less salary than a man who is a father and has to sustain a family. This happens, explained in the article, because the idea that a women become mothers start to give a less effort in their jobs, meaning they don’t work as hard as the men. The article starts by explaining how the ideology of intensive motherhood does not let a woman work as hard than before she was a mother. Ideology of intensive motherhood means that a woman has to be the one at home taking care of the children and house chores. Also, a woman being a mother and a wife at home takes up a lot of energy and time, which means that this should be the woman’s first priority. Therefore, a mother working the same job as a father is earning less because “…they’re more distractible when on the job”. This all means that a woman who is a mother can not have two priorities and that because she has children at home she can not give her full attention to her job. According to the article, this is one of the main...
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...1800 Single Family Homes, the Causes of all Evil? When carefully studying youth delinquency the easiest thing to do is group all delinquent youths under one common denominator. Unfortunately for Jennifer Roback, it is impossible to find a common link that truly is a route cause because there are always too many other variables at play that may or may not be full known to the researcher. To suggest that living with a single parent, or in the case of this article, a single mother; those children raised in such households have very little chance at living inside the constitutes of the law. While it may seem that the previous wording used here is strong, the point she is making is that single mother families do not work and that children with absent fathers are doomed to be criminals, or at least have almost no chance to be a productive member of society. While there are countless examples of people you and I both know people that are well adjusted, successful individuals raised in single mother households, the slant on this article is so strongly negative that it would seem the very thought of associating with such people could be a detriment on ourselves. In fact, taking this article as cold hard fact, could transform all ideas about development as a child in general for instance; Roback states that, “The basic self-control and reciprocity that a free society takes for granted do not develop automatically. Conscience development takes place in childhood. Children need...
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...Jennyfer Medy Sociology Professor Sobel POVERTY IN SINGLE MOTHERS Poverty is defined as “the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money” (http://www.ask.com/wiki/Poverty). Poverty continues to be an epidemic we face in the United States. “According to an analysis of census data, 7.9 million people live in high-poverty neighborhoods. About 30 percent of the population in these neighborhoods is Black, 29 Hispanic, and 24 percent White. (Chapter 10/Social Class, pg.255; handout). As we take a closer look, poverty is at an all time high in single mothers. “In 1970, the number of single-parent families with children under the age of 18 was 3.8 million. By 1990, the number had more than doubled to 9.7 million” (http://www3.uakron.edu/schulze/401/readings/singleparfam.htm). According to textbook Sociology Matters by Richard T. Schaefer, “since World War II, women have constituted an increasing proportion of the poor people in the United States” (Schaefer, 2013, pg 146). The factors that lead women into poverty include the departure, disability, or a death of a husband. Single mothers are also more likely to be poor because of the lower income earnings, inadequate public assistance and lack of child support from fathers. The conflict theory is highly depicted among poverty in single women. “Conflict theorists and other observers trace the higher rates of poverty among women to three distinct factors;...
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