Why do we have to endure the same bogus story every year claiming mothers should make 150k a year? Is it just the Nws Orgs appealing to vanity on the stay at home mother's part? Child care isn't that expensive, you can hire a nanny cheap and get an illegal one even cheaper. So why the pretence?
2007-05-02 23:02:50 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
Claim all the jobs you want you can still hire a 19 year old nanny to do the same thing for less than 20k.
2007-05-02 23:16:25 · update #1
I've given people advice on things. Should they pay me as a counselor? I've helped friends move in and out of places. Shouldn't they pay me like a moving person. I feed my dog. Why aren't I getting paid to take care of a dog?
This shows just how incredibly stupid this story is. There is one major thing at fault here, political correctness. This is a great addition to the whole "women are oppressed and not paid what they are worth" mentality.
2007-05-03 05:08:07 · answer #1 · answered by Chuckwalla 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Basically I agree with Chuck above me. This is a crock. It's suggesting people should be paid to live. Housework and child care are a part of life. Fathers also work around the house, so do kids. Should they get paid as well?
And I've asked my mother, bless her, and she says it's a crock as well. She's a great mum and a brilliant cook, but she's hopeless at housework. If she got a job as a professional cleaner she would get the sack on day one, not get paid thousands of dollars a year.
Feminism doesn't need these cheap gimmicks.
2007-05-04 00:08:50 · answer #2 · answered by Girl Machine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why not? If I could unilaterally choose my job and also demand the wage, I would.
While they claim to have a plethora of duties, if they choose not to do them or do them badly, they can't be fired without one hellofa severance package (gaining nearly the entire "company" plus at least partial wages for up to 18 years).
But hey, this is the new world where some women demand the choices like the unilateral decisions to give birth and stay at home to raise their children as they see fit and be paid for both. If they work outside the home, they consider that "their money" and want to be paid for their choice to stay at home too without paying room and board.
One would think these women are washing clothes out back with a kettle over a log fire after hauling water, using a scrub board, canning food she picked from the garden, cooking every meal from scratch on a wood-burning stove, ironing every article of cloth without an electric iron, sweeping with a broom and dustpan and on their hands and knees scrubbing the floors with a brush.
2007-05-03 09:54:54 · answer #3 · answered by Phil #3 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I also wonder why women lament over their "unpaid" services. Just this morning I was reading all the unaccounted services that housewives often claim; accounting, laundress, psychologist etc. What is so unnerving is that most people dont earn any money from their daily chores & responsibilities. At least I never got a check for washing my clothes or doing my dishes.
That’s life- women make a choice to have children- a fantastic, rewarding one at that. But for some reason, one often hears the complaints of the "over-worked, under-paid mommy". If it is a matter of venting frustration for the stress endured in the role of mommy, than this is pardonable. But if they really believe this crap- than I guess I owe my mom a lot of money.
2007-05-03 06:55:05 · answer #4 · answered by nomadic10denc 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
If You were to take the hourly rate of each of the service professions that Women emulate, and then divide it by the actual number of minutes per day that. From this figure subtract Tax, Rent/Mortgage fees, Food and Travel expenses and see what figure You arrive at. It ends up as being something between a mere pittance and damn all. Basic wage? More like slave labor.
PS: Do You advocate the wholesale violation of the Immigration and Labor Laws just so as to win an argument?
2007-05-03 07:22:51 · answer #5 · answered by Ashleigh 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
You wouldnt last one day doing what we do!
First off, you are wrong about childcare being cheap.Also there are other reasons that I dont put my children in daycare.
And if you think anyone would do all the things I do all day for 20k a year....WRONG!
Vanity, oh yeah, that is exactly what I have. I get up at the crack of dawn to get my family going. I take the kids to school in workout clothes or sweats. Some days, I dont have time to put on makeup or do anything but pull my hair back in a ponytail and go....So, again, you are wrong!
Btw, I have a BS of Science in Nursing. I made great money as a nurse, yet it is still more economical for
me to stay home.
2007-05-03 06:56:43 · answer #6 · answered by Hot Momma 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋
You men who bag women make me feel ill - I am tired of reading this clap trap. Women who stay at home work very hard and child care is highly expensive I have no idea what cave you are living in but boy are you out of touch. As for getting a young inexperienced nanny or an illegal one would you leave your children all day with an inexperienced carer. A few years ago a child died in the care of a home carer - he leaned his chair back and fell through a glass wondow cut his throat and died - accidents happen and I would never get a nanny who was inexperienced or illegal looking after my children. People have issues with lack of care by child care services. Also a stay at home mothers job is thankless and obviously by your out of touch and rude comments and that of other uninformed individuals that it is highly unappreciated as well.
And Nomadic 1 - you think of all the tasks your mother did for you - cooking your meals, tutoring you, building your self esteem, cleaning your room, wiping your bottom and other personal care duties, administering medical attention and first aid, getting up in the middle of the night for bad dream therepy and soothing back rubs, lost dog finder, pet doctor, budgetting for toys from Santa - and often going without so you could have taht special toy, school advocate, counsellor, entertainment manager, and there are many other tasks that get taken for granted and as for a rewarding job - wiping a bottom and cleaning up diarea and vomit is not rewarding, nor is having to scrape regurgertated food off the table, or try to find tempting meals to make on a budget, or defending silly behaviour at school or tutoring children to pass exams etc etc etc - NOT REWARDING but needs to be done!!
2007-05-03 07:27:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
ahhh, if only stay at home moms only watched children. They're chauffeur's, maids, personal secretaries, cooks, nannies, gardeners, and many other things to many different people. The 150k, comes from adding up the salary of all the different things they do.....and believe me, they earn it. I am not a stay-at-home mom but I have the utmost respect for those that can and do choose to stay at home with their children.
2007-05-03 06:07:46 · answer #8 · answered by Angie 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Caring for one's family is paying a DEBT. We owe it to our families to care for whatever is needed.
My daughter asked me what she would get paid for doing a chore. I told her "dinner." Chores are what we do as families. Dad and/or mom goes to work. Why? That's their "responsibility." They are supposed to.
SAHMs or SAHDs, just like the working spouse, have responsibilities that they owe the family.
But, as the family has become devalued so has service to it. It has now become equated to a paid service. That is very sad and a symptom of why most families break up.
2007-05-03 09:48:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Not to mention that stay at home moms though not directly earning money enjoy the standard of living the husband provides.
Stories like these pamper their egos and make them feel good and appreciated, nothing wrong with that.
2007-05-03 08:32:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋