Mixed Feelings
Jul. 21st, 2008 08:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hertinknessPoor Economy Slams Brakes on Women's Workplace Progress
On one hand, this sucks. Women are losing their jobs, and because the market won't support them at the same rate, they're choosing unemployment and/or raising a family in lieu of a job.
On the other hand, ohthankGod they're not dropping out en masse to be SAHMs because they're convinced that their motherhood is so highly valued that they shouldn't even THINK about anything else until their youngest is 25, like society seems to tell us. They're dropping out because their work is less valued than their husbands' (suuuuuuuck), but not because they've fallen victim to June Cleaver Syndrome.
On one hand, this sucks. Women are losing their jobs, and because the market won't support them at the same rate, they're choosing unemployment and/or raising a family in lieu of a job.
On the other hand, ohthankGod they're not dropping out en masse to be SAHMs because they're convinced that their motherhood is so highly valued that they shouldn't even THINK about anything else until their youngest is 25, like society seems to tell us. They're dropping out because their work is less valued than their husbands' (suuuuuuuck), but not because they've fallen victim to June Cleaver Syndrome.
