do you think women should be working?

Question

do you think women should be working? im writng a speech on it and i dont have a single point... i need some help ASAP.

Answer 1

Yes. My mom worked and I don't think she neglected my or my brother's education. Skillful woman with support of her partner is able to raise good family and be successful in job. I cannot imagine my life without my job - and I don't believe most of women would make household work their meaning of life, if they had a choice.
Women should work for their independence (husband leaves her and she's lost?), self-confidence, experience and world's prosperity, because in many cases they are better than men.

Answer 2

I think it's a good idea not only for women to work, but women should also get a college education. Here's why: Many women are socialized to believe that their role in life is to get married and have children. The problem with this is it makes women plan their lives around (and count on) getting married and having a family. Well, what if a particular woman never gets married? Or if she does, what happens if the husband loses his job or doesn't earn enough to support the whole family? Even worse, what happens if the woman ends up getting a divorce? In all of these situations, you have a woman who will HAVE to work outside the home. As a man who has been there I can tell you it's extremely difficult to make enough to support a family, let alone live to any level of comfort or luxury, without an education. I'm one of the few people that can live comfortably supporting himself and his wife, but it took years of hard work, a lot of specialized training to get marketable job skills, and a healthy helping of luck as well. BOTTOM LINE: There's nothing wrong with a woman wanting to get married and have a family, but she really needs to have a back-up plan just in case her life doesn't pan out exactly the way she would like it to.

Answer 3

The feminist movement was all about creating choice for women. And now we have it. Broad generalizations, like 'should women be working', only sets back that freedom of choice.

Economically, a country is stronger when the most number of people are working.

Socially, a working mother cannot devote the time a child needs to establish a strong family bond. Nannies can do the job, but it follows that the child will bond with the person who provides the greatest amount of care...that would be the Nanny.

Although I can find no statistical evidence for this (which is highly suspicious), I believe that the increased disrespect and violence being displayed by youth today is directly related to the lack of time parents (both mom and dad) are spending with their children. Is it such a stretch to recognize that children started bullying and bringing guns to school is related to the fact that this generation is the one that has the highest numbers of working mothers?

Answer 4

I believe yes although I'm a guy. I believe working women are more independant and in freedom. A simple example is that why there's so many women abusers it's because they say they could do anything they want to them because they are the haed of house so the woman has to just sit there without a say while she's been made a bunchbag. Women who works and maybe engaged they should find a place of their own because man are full of nonsense and they could beat her up and throw out of his house and if she works and earn her own money then they guy would think twice before he lays a hand on her, Hope this answer helps.

Answer 5

When the modern wage structure was first created over 100 years ago, the assumption was that women would be working at home and men would be going out to earn a wage. Hence, a man's wage was such that he could support a family, as he was the sole earner.

Hence, when women started to earn wages, they were much lower than men, on the grounds that it was extra income and not the main wage. Naturally, we've come a long way since those days, although equality isn't yet the status quo.

Considering the family fragmentation that has taken place since both partners began working, I reckon we've been proper exploited by the capitalist p*gs in charge.

Working in all its forms is healthy, but there's a good argument for one partner in a relationship to focus their attention on bringing up children, if and when they come along.

Answer 6

At least in my area of the United States, the 40's and 50's nuclear family never existed. In rural farm communities (ie. Midwest corn belt) there were three basic categories of women's roles. The women that were allowed the luxury of staying at home to raise children were usually the wives of successful businessmen. The rest consisted of farm wives who used the family farm to grow and preserve food for the family to eat throughout the year and women who worked at low paying factory jobs to help provide the basic necessities of life to her family. There were exceptions to this, but most mothers during this era fell into one of these three categories.

The disintegration of the family farm from the late 1800's to its demise in the late 1980's created a need for women to seek employment away from home. Most of us are only a few generations away from our subsistence farm heritage.

In answer to your question, stay at home mothers are a relatively new phenomenon. Most women of the 40's, 50's, and 60's saw the images of women portrayed by the so called nuclear family as a luxury they would never be wealthy enough to enjoy. Children were tended to by not only parents, but older siblings and widowed grandmothers.

Answer 7

Women contribute to a stronger economy by working, the more that is earnt the more that is spent.
Most women need to work if they are in a living together situation as quite often one income does not pay enoughto cover everything

Answer 8

Pros:
Freedom of choice.Women should be allowed sexual equality
Without women working there would be an acute labor shortage
Women are naturally inclined to do some jobs better than men
Women have been responsible for some of the worlds major discoveries and advances.(Marie Curie).
Women working supplement household incomes and can help give their families a better standard of living as a result

Antis:
Women should stay at home to rear children who otherwise have to little parental control
Women should not work-it undermines the man's role as traditional breadwinner.
Women take jobs that would otherwise be available for unemployed men
Women have enough to do in the home and household jobs should be their priority
Women are not physically equipped to do a number of jobs for which they are employed

Answer 9

You should rephrase your question to "Should women be working outside the home." Being a stay at home mother & home schooling my child I am always working; before husband gets up, and usually after he's stopped for the day.

Our belief is that women with children should stay at home and raise them if at all possible. I don't want the government (schools) or peer pressure to teach morals to my child. Children deserve better than that.

"The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world." IF she trains & teaches the child instead of letting society do it for her.

Answer 10

no unless she is the bread winner or single.
Look up latch key children and find some material for your report .
If we don't stay out of other countries businesses pretty soon not only the women will HAVE to work so will children to be able to stay afloat.