Thursday, October 11, 2012

Can us women have it all?

This week I found a New York Times article all about women working and being mothers as well. Can we have it all? the article points out that the society has seem to not make much progress supporting working mothers. But some companies do offer ore flexible hours if you do have children. It will probably be a long slow process towards this ideal work for women being fully accepted in society for being a working women. It might be that women, even men, in high demanding jobs, may just not be able to juggle bot the stresses of being a parent and the stresses of having an important position. Although this may be true, many mothers in the United States do obtain some of the most powerful positions. But there seem to be many younger men who say they want more time with their families. Maybe they will perhaps join forces for change or help re-imagine some of the toughest jobs. This article made me a little upset when it said that society has not yet made the change to support working mothers. I have to disagree with this though, we might not be 100% there, but I believe there are plenty of people that support them. Maybe it is just in our area, we live in a very liberal area of the United States that seem to be fine with mothers working and having a high position job. I can see how maybe in the south this not being socially acceptable. I think it would be very stressful for a women to have a high demanding job and have to parent a few kids, but I think us women can defiantly do it!

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  1. I'm also doing my blog about feminism and it's so frustrating how women are still thought to not being able to handle the tasks put in front of them. Working mothers have two hard and tiring jobs of being a mother and whatever their occupation is. Although women today are still thought to be inferior, we continue to work our way up and prove to people everywhere that we are capable of much more! Btw i lovee your picture!

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