Wouldn't life be much better if women didn't have careers and were full-time housewives/homemakers?

Question

This isn't meant to be sexist.

However I'm curious to see how society would be if women didn't work. Many may say they need to work for economic reasons, but I don't buy that because if women didn't work, there would be less spending and less need for 2 income.

Also, this isn't my opinion, I'm just posing this as hypotehtical situation.

Answer 1

I understand what you are saying. I wouldn’t have asked it like that thought. I would ask if it would be better for society if only one person in the couple would work and the other stays home (no matter if male or female).

Many think that women would be a better candidate to stay home only because of children. But if you think of it, is only true for about a year or two. After that, there is no difference if the father or the mother takes care of the kids.

Reality is that today is not possible to do this on a general basics as salaries ARE NOT up to a realistic level.

Since the day of the “female revolution”, economy changed on a way that now is based on the fact that both the husband and the wife must work to be able to have the resources to have a family.

You will find that the majority of the population enters in this classification. Only a small percent of privileged people are in a situation where only one person works while the other stays home. Most cases the husband is the one who has a good job that happens pay extremely good, so the wife can stay home.

Still, after the kids start going to school, the wife finds herself bored at home, and in most cases, she ends up applying for at least a small part time job to keep herself entertained, and this is normal human behavior anyways.

I think instead of thinking of keeping one person at home, we should concentrate on how to change things so the wife can have more free time to dedicate to the children when they are around, and also how to make it possible for everybody in general to make more money without having to work 18 hours out of 24 a day (and this is the case of many American families today).

Society today is corrupted in many ways. And is our children the ones that are paying because they don’t get love and affection from their parent, instead they get a “hello” and a “goodbye” most days, and usually everybody is already pissed off because of being late, or traffic, or work, or the speeding ticket, etc, etc… And you know what will be of those kids in the future… don’t you?

This affects us all. And is sad to see that almost nobody is doing anything to fix this. I wouldn’t be surprised if before I die I see another revolution in the world, and hopefully things will change to something better.

On the mean time, I would suggest to try to avoid thinking of money as money. Think of it as a reward of your work, and use it to make you and your family happy. And instead of sitting in front of the TV at night to eat, sit at the table with your family, and talk. Talk about anything, it don’t matter. You would be surprised of how many things you can talk.

Is hard, but we need to find time to be a family, and forget a little bit about work and money.

Think about it.

Answer 2

Well, what about the women (millions of them) who have to work outside the home because either the children's father is unemployed, underemployed, dead , in the military or out of the picture. Do you realize that a second income is not a luxury in most cases? It's usually because the woman has to work in order to make ends meet. The basic costs of a home, car, gas, food, insurance, health care, clothing, utilities continue to rise each and every year and all of them together are out of the reach of most single-wage households.

Not all women with children are married. In fact, this is the first time in history that married couples are in the minority of the US population.

However, I do agree that if women could be home with their children to raise them and guide them, so many of the societal ills that we now know could be slowed down at least.

However, there are so many reasons why women have to work outside of the home now that it's pretty unrealistic to expect any great number to remain at home raising children.

Most of us do the best we possibly can to raise decent, intelligent and loving children. It's just that so much is expected of a woman/mother/wife that it exhausting and overwhelming a lot of the time.

Answer 3

I would love it if today I got home and my fiance tells me guess what hunni stay home from now on...and as soon as we get married we'll have kids and you'll be a housewive...


the problem is...most famillies need 2 cars one for daddy to go off to work and one for mommy to go grochery shopping, take kids to school, take kids to sports activites etc.

cost of living has increased immensely for the amount were being paid so just food alone is ridic...

they just had an article for 2 its cheaper to go out to eat then cook at home...even for a family once you actually count in the work...

the housing market is crazy too...so for a house to fit 3 children and a dog and the couple you're spending over 200k...

so how does the guy support all of that...

believe me im already trying to see if these "work at home" things work

Answer 4

Why don’t you stay home and become the homemaker/ househusband and let your wife go to work and bring home the beacon. Your should have asked why don't one of the partners stay home and not just jump right to the woman. (that's just my opinion)

Yeah I know your asking a hypothetical situation and it's your opinion, but we need to move on and not take a few steps back, those day are long gone, let the woman of today have a life out side the home in the work place if they choose so, if it makes them happy that’s all that counts. And that’s just my opinion.

Answer 5

You should rephrase your question to "Wouldn't life be much better FOR MEN if women didn't have careers and were full-time housewives/homemakers?"

Women do not want to stay at home day after day cooking, cleaning and looking after children. People don't only work for income, they work for fun, experience and interacting. Women as well as men like working for those reasons. So maybe life would be better for men but you disregarded the fact that women also have lives. Actually, I bet many women would prefer it if men were permanent homemakers and house-husbands.

Answer 6

Ok lets turn the question around then why cant a man stay at home and do everything you said the woman should do. I know that I make more money than my husband so .

Answer 7

I think you do what's right for your family. If both husband and wife want to work and it works for them, who's to say it's wrong? My husband and I built a company together from the ground up. We both work, but I have my office set up in my home so I can be with my children when they aren't in school. You do what's right for your family.

Answer 8

well, i feel it is a woman's right to choose whether she works or not. it would be demeaning to women if they didn't have a choice and had to stay home. i am very happy with my career< i am a Registered nurse> and my husband is very happy as well i am home with our daughter 3 days of te work week, and he is home with her 2 days of the work week. thankfully our jobs allow us the flexibility to do this. i am a much happier person b/c of going out and making money on my own, and helping other people on a daily basis!

Answer 9

well let's put it this way, it would be better if one of the couple were able to stay home and be a full time homemaker; and take care of all that stuff and kids and whathave you; but, economically, most couples both have to work in order to maintain a home these days without anything extra going on.

Answer 10

if a woman has a job after marraige and before kids good, it keeps her busy. but if a woman is fortunate to have a husband and kids she should stay home and care for them, her house and her husband and let her hubby provide for his family. I am a stay at home mom, my job does not reqire me to be on my feet all day, but i cant just clock out and go home either. it is 24/7 job with no days off. We have 2 cars his and mine. we are buying our house and have been able to afford an xbox regular and 360 and a ps one and two, a52 inch t.v. and new washer and dryer and new computer all utillities and phone Digital cable and internet, and clothes for our tree children and ourselves with toys and movies for our kids and ourselves and nice family dinners out once or twice a week. we dont use credit cards and my car and our house will be paid off in 2 years, plus with out the help of foodstamps or anyone else we buy enough food to feed all 5 of us. my husband brings in over 3,000 dollars a month and it is enough to take care of our family.