“Four-out-of-five women say they would give up their jobs if they did not need the money.”
This quote appeared in an article published in 2000 on BBC. This struck me as extremely sad. The reason why 80% of women feel that way? The article reveals that a survey stated that women are finding it hard to manage a life at home and work. These women claim that they are lacking “support from both their managers and their partners.” The problem is that not only are women competing for jobs, but that they do a majority of the work at home. Furthermore, there’s a problem with guilt because they feel that they are “emotionally damaging their children and putting their own health at risk by working.” Being a mother and a wife is already a job on its own, and adding a career to that would be overload to some I’m sure. I can’t speak from experience because I do not have a family of my own to take care of since I’m neither married or have children, but I can say that managing school and work is hard. I understand that. What gets to me is that “77% feel they have to work much harder than men to gain promotion, even though they feel they have better communication and organizational skills.” Maybe it wouldn’t be as bad for women to find a balance between having a family and a career if everything else was equal. Women did come a long way, and it’s wonderful that we now have the same opportunities as men and we are able to work and have careers. However, everything should be equal. Maybe that’s too optimistic and unrealistic to think about – I get that. However, I think it would be much easier for women if they had the same amount of work as their husbands when they get home. Maybe if more men had chores at home women wouldn’t feel so overwhelmed. Maybe women wouldn’t feel so stressed about their jobs if they didn’t have to prove themselves just because they’re female and not male. Maybe if their gender didn’t matter, the four out of five women would actually enjoy their jobs.
Link to article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/781631.stm
This quote appeared in an article published in 2000 on BBC. This struck me as extremely sad. The reason why 80% of women feel that way? The article reveals that a survey stated that women are finding it hard to manage a life at home and work. These women claim that they are lacking “support from both their managers and their partners.” The problem is that not only are women competing for jobs, but that they do a majority of the work at home. Furthermore, there’s a problem with guilt because they feel that they are “emotionally damaging their children and putting their own health at risk by working.” Being a mother and a wife is already a job on its own, and adding a career to that would be overload to some I’m sure. I can’t speak from experience because I do not have a family of my own to take care of since I’m neither married or have children, but I can say that managing school and work is hard. I understand that. What gets to me is that “77% feel they have to work much harder than men to gain promotion, even though they feel they have better communication and organizational skills.” Maybe it wouldn’t be as bad for women to find a balance between having a family and a career if everything else was equal. Women did come a long way, and it’s wonderful that we now have the same opportunities as men and we are able to work and have careers. However, everything should be equal. Maybe that’s too optimistic and unrealistic to think about – I get that. However, I think it would be much easier for women if they had the same amount of work as their husbands when they get home. Maybe if more men had chores at home women wouldn’t feel so overwhelmed. Maybe women wouldn’t feel so stressed about their jobs if they didn’t have to prove themselves just because they’re female and not male. Maybe if their gender didn’t matter, the four out of five women would actually enjoy their jobs.
Link to article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/781631.stm
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