Women are "nurturers": True or false?

Question

It is commonly presumed that a woman in business or politics would bring a "nurturing" approach and more "emotional" point of view. Also that women "need" to nurture...

Is this reality, or a sexist myth?

Simply giving birth, then, affects how you handle every other situation in your life? You will behave differently in a corporate boardroom because you nursed a baby 10 years ago?

Answer 1

Feminist economics broadly refers to a developing branch of economics that applies feminist insights and critiques to economics. Research under this heading is often interdisciplinary, critical, or heterodox, and discusses the relationship between feminism and economics on many levels: from applying mainstream economic methods to under-researched "women's" areas, to questioning how mainstream economics values the reproductive sector, to deeply philosophical critiques of economic epistemology and methodology.
Origins
While attention to women’s economic role and economic differences by gender started in the 1960s and there were important feminist critiques of received economic theories in the 1970s and 1980s, feminist economics took off in earnest with the founding of the International Association for Feminist Economics in 1990 and the journal Feminist Economics in 1994. As in other disciplines, the initial emphasis of feminist economists was to critique the established theory, methodology, and policy approaches. The critique began in microeconomics of the household and labor markets and spread to macroeconomics and international trade, leaving no field in economics untouched. Feminist economists pushed for and produced gender aware theory and analysis, broadened the focus on economics and sought pluralism of methodology and research methods.

Some considered it related to Green economics since Greens list feminism as an explicit goal of their political measures, often seeking higher valuations for such work. Feminist Economics is also often linked with welfare economics or labour economics, since it emphasizes child welfare, and the value of labour in itself, as opposed to production for a marketplace, the focus of classical economy.

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Employment Equity
Early on, feminist ethicists, economists, political scientists and systems scientists argued that women's traditional work (e.g. child-raising, caring for sick elders) and occupations (e.g. nursing, teaching) are systematically undervalued with respect to that of men. Measures such as employment equity were implemented in developed nations in the 1970s to 1990s, but these were not entirely successful in removing wage gaps even in nations with strong equity traditions. Systemic study of the ways that women's work is undervalued, undertaken by Marilyn Waring and others in the 1980s and 1990s, began to justify different means of measurement of value - some of which were influential in the theory of social capital and individual capital, which emerged in the late 1990s and ultimately merged with ecological economics to become modern human development theory.

Jane Jacobs' thesis of the "Guardian Ethic" and its contrast to the "Trader Ethic" was also influential in explaining in ethical terms why a trading culture would systematically undervalue guardianship activity, including the child-protecting, nurturing, and healing tasks that were traditionally assigned to women. This led to the more general idea of systems as expressing either tolerances or preferences, and never being very good at both.

Critics of the theses of Waring, Jacobs, and other feminists who explore the role of women in the economy, argue that protective activities, e.g. military and police and government, are just as much male as female roles, more so in times of chaos, and that these preceding theories are sexist. A striking example is World War II, in which women worked in factories while men fought - a reversal of the roles according to Jacobs, but entirely to be expected according to nearly everyone else

Answer 2

Most definitely, women are sexually, frustrated animals. It's caused by prolonged, inhibited emotions which were expected of her for the formative years. Upon maturity, 18 to 24. all these emotions are finally released and dealt with by numerous sexual partners.When these female- gendered attractive whitches finally snare a captivated , unsuspecting male for marriage or long term relationship, control issues surface. She has , for the first time in her life, power and control over someone. As the family is added to she begins to see and feel that power, that control slip away, PMS rears it's ugly head , slowly. She wants to be a heathy sexual animal but so many thoughts running through her mind mess up her plans and she is forced to rag out on him, blaming him for her inabilities, her frustrations, and her actions or inactions. As problems or negative events occur, deal with them indevidually, one at a time. Do not expect to win every argument even when you are right. ( Mother's advice) Don't go to bed angry at each other.

Answer 3

False, or incomplete. Women are the natural nurterers of children. Men are the natural nurterers of women. I have a saying, "Fathers are the least appreciated in the home, and mothers are the least appreciated in the work force."

Without mothers, fathers wouldn't have the time nor means to leave the home in order to work and put food on the table. Yet, without the fathers, woman wouldn't be able to nurture and care for the children.

In all truth, mothers nurture children, while the father provides for and nurtures the mother.

Answer 4

Women were born to nurture. Which sex gives birth? There you have it, then. That's REALity. I suppose you could make ANYTHING a sexist myth...so why even try?

Answer 5

No it isn't a sexist myth, women are naturally more nuturing as they have to physically carry the child and give birth to it. Howver having said that women can be just as strong, dynamic and epowerful as men.

Answer 6

True.Despite the fact that I wasn't able to see my mother because she died when I was still one month and 18 days old, my grandmother wholeheartedly take the resposibility that was supposedly my mother's task. On the other hand,women in business are more charismatic to deal with and in addition to that every cent that comes in, is very costful.

Answer 7

sexist myth not all women are a like and "NEED" to nurture..... try going into study about this it will prove a point

Answer 8

I think it's true. There are always exceptions though.

Answer 9

True.