Why should women work?

Question

Don't you believe that the woman's biological make-up has made her excel as the homemaker.Her gentle, caring and selfsacrificing temperament is best suited to bringing up children and looking after the home then why should women go out and work?
Does this implies that everything she does for her home and children is worthless and needs to be supplemented by an outside cover. A woman already has to play in society a great and noble role as mother of a new generation, a role for which no man can claim the honors.Don't you feel this is injustice to women? why don't women, themselves understand this reality?

Answer 1

I am very fortunate to have been able to stay at home with my 3 girls for 10 years. We chose for me to stay home because my husband's income was more than mine. I know that helping to raise responsible, caring human beings is one of the most important jobs I'll ever have. Being a full time caregiver requires ingenuity, patience, kindness and a very strong resolve. Now it's time for me to work for a salary so that we can help provide our children with an education. Again, keep in mind that our children's well-being and future is our primary concern. I will say that after staying at home for 10 years and trying to get back into the workforce, I have been encountering instances where I wasn't able to get a particular job because my work experience is not recent. Perhaps more women would feel that staying home is a worthwhile endeavor if others treated homemaking as a valuable contribution instead of an extended vacation.

Answer 2

Whoa, reality is different for each individual based on each individuals own perceptions.

I do believe that strong family units help provide for a stronger community for several reasons. This is not to say that a women shouldn't work. There are successful families with stay-at-home dads and the children turn out well.

If you and your partner are happy with you staying at home and being a housewife, that is wonderful and I think most people can respect that, even if it is not their own preference to do the same.

My wife chose to work. During that time we worked different shifts and days so when she was at work and I was at home, I did the diaper changing, laundry and housecleaning and I don't think I'm too bad a cook either. When I worked and she was off, we reversed roles. My children don't call me "mom" and they don't call their mother "dad". It didn't affect our genders. I am no less a man and she is no less a woman.

She did find a lover at work and we are now divorced. People have told me that I should have never let her work. Well, she could have done the same if she didn't work. It was a choice she made. I had the opportunity for extramarital relationships as well, but my choices were different at that time. Although I don't hold the romantic feelings I once had for her, as the mother of my children (and a woman with a career) I respect her just the same.

Don't be too quick to judge others' lifestyles and maybe they won't be so quick to judge your own.

Answer 3

OK. This is partly right, and partly wrong. A mother is a great role, and not something a man can fill in. And it should never be undermined or devalued.
But on the other hand, some women just have no desire for children or an husband (I don't) at least not at the moment. They want to accomplish other things.

It largely depends on the woman; many women marry later (like in 30's) after they've launched a successful career, traveled the world, or done whatever the heck they wanted to accomplish. And many women love to work, keep themselves busy. I do not believe in limiting women (or any other group) to a specific role- whether it be a good housewife or a good career woman.

Answer 4

It is absolutely not an injustice. We live in a time where people can easily be many things at once. It is an injustice to say a women should only be a mother and homemaker when she may also be a great writer, politician, teacher, banker, etc...Why not have women help both their family AND the world?

We would never say men are only made to provide seed and that is their best, most natural, role in life.

Of course, if people choose this, fantastic. If people choose to be a parent and a homemaker and a ... (fill in career/hobby choice), society should support that. Sometimes what is natural doesn't fully realize a person's potential.

Answer 5

Being 'biologically important' isn't as ...well... important to some of us. I don't think that it is an injustice that women want to work. It isn't so much an outside cover as it is wanting to work. Some of us like to work and not stay at home watching children and changing diapers.

What if Mother Theresa said 'I should just be a stay at home mom?' Clara Barton was a famous nurse. Indira Gandhi was the prime minister of India. Margret Thatcher is the prime minister of England. Harriet Tubman freed hundreds of slaves. Jane Austen was a great author. Amelia Earheart was the first woman to fly over the Atlantic. Helen Keller, duh. Marie Curie helped discover Uranium. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Toms Cabin. Grandma Moses whose art touched many people.

All these women contributed something important and helped make the world what it is to day.

Some women work out of necessity.

Some women want to work and become scientists or teachers, and actually like their jobs and like doing work.

In many cultures women have traditionally been forced into a limited role of caregiver and hence have been denied the opportunities associated with a male dominated society. In some nations women have been denied citizenship which is just as bad as not being considered human!

Answer 6

Women need money too! And with 50% of marriages ending in divorce, women need to be able to support themselves b/c they can't rely on a man for the rest of their lives anymore. The way our society is now, women often have to fend for themselves. Plus, a lot of women don't want to sit at home all day or even have kids; they want to go out and do something with their lives, like have a career or get some education.

Answer 7

When I was married and my children were young, I stayed home. My husband made VERY little money, but we survived and the boys grew up with a mom at home. When they got older, I worked part time, only why they were at school. Later, after I got divorced I started working full time. Now that they are grown, I work, still single, so I have to work. If I remarried, I'd still work, because I'd have no reason to stay home, no more kids. I'm glad I was a stay at home mom, even if it meant we didn't have the money for trips to disneyland or weekly movies. My boys had someone at home, and all 4 grew up to be great kids.

Answer 8

It would be nice to stay home and raise children but if you haven't married a rich man then the woman has to work so there can be a house to have a home in. Idealism is nice but it is not today's reality.

Answer 9

i imagine a number of the hot issues women face is that now they're only as equivalent, numerous the time, earning the spouse and toddlers money. yet nonetheless are envisioned to get dinner and safeguard the toddlers, sparkling the homestead. men are also i noticed are a lot less possibly to artwork and assume the spouse to safeguard them. men are afraid to open the door for us, i wager both from concern that we can yell at them that we can do it ourselves, they don't supply outstanding compliments by using concern that we can fee them with sexual harassment. we are fortunate to stumble on a guy that cares sufficient to favor to be at homestead, and is a touch quaint about taking care human beings yet nonetheless enables us to be an equivalent. I also imagine that women are compelled to seem a particular way, because of fake advertising that Hollywood has shown us with the perfect women. even as in certainty it truly is an phantasm that without 50 human beings engaged on her for 5 hours will under no circumstances earnings.

Answer 10

No, women are not worthless due to,
being a stay at home mum ~!

On the other hand,
I most say , it's not easy for all the bill.s and need,s for the children to be met, by 1 income now aday's~!

Also the stress on the the man is overwhelming~!

My opinion, is for me,,
I don't want to be dependent on no man,
I want to keep my income,

So many women are in bad abusive relationship,s ,
because of no other way to make it in the world.~!

No thanks , i will continue to make my living!

That does not make me a bad homemaker,
It makes me a wise women ,
in case the relationship don't work out ,
I can work ~ support ~ live ~ my life on my own ~!
~*~*~*~Brat-tett.