What would help women in the workplace push through the double bind issue?
The doube bind issue being that women must choose a career or a family. What could women to do make it easier to do both? What could the government do? what could the employer do?
I’m not sure what women could do…. but men could do a bit more!! help out more.. do the dishes.. pick up after themselves, help out with the kids a bit more
Comment by mara_bear — February 1, 2010 @ 1:03 am
-Não o conteúdo da pergunta e talvez vc não venha a saber o contúdo da resposta, mas sempre está entrando o YR em inglês no YR do Brasil, portanto aproveito e ganho alguns pontos. Certo?
Comment by kapijoh — February 2, 2010 @ 9:37 pm
More (and better) government funded daycare. I think that the single most powerful source of help for women struggling with this choice should be a supportive family – a husband willing to take days off to be with the kids, grandparents willing to watch the children from time to time.
Comment by Cristy — February 3, 2010 @ 3:21 am
A woman could insist that her man, and her family, help her with childcare and housework
The government could set up a network of 24 hour a day publicly funded free day care centers
Employers could make it easier for moms to take days off for sick kids, school events ect
Comment by The Infamous Vinnie G — February 5, 2010 @ 7:45 am
NOTHING! NOT ONE THING! Why is this a woman’s issue? In fact, why is it an issue at all? Men have always had to leave their family at home and go to work, and no one helped us. In fact, for a number of years single fathers faced the threat of having their children taken away because they had no choice but to work and weren’t able to be at home for their kids, and some still do in many situations. Now women that CHOOSE to work even though their husband makes plenty of money are whining because they can’t handle the man’s job without special treatment.
This ‘double blind’ garbage sounds more like a ‘double standard’.
Government sponsored daycare? Where was that for men, and why should people who’ve already raised their kids without it, or don’t have any kids, be forced to pay for it with their tax dollars?
Employers letting ‘mom’ leave work early? Yeah, no problem, just get a man to do her job while she’s gone. After all, who cares if he has kids at home too, right?
Men do a bit more to help out? Good idea, after all, he’s going to be covering for the ‘mom’ that got to leave work early, so why shouldn’t he do the same at home?
It sounds to me like a lot of women are admitting they can’t handle the same job as a man always has without special treatment.
You know, I don’t care if women want to work or not, and I’m sorry for the fact our society has let itself deteriorate to the point where both parents have to work just to survive in many cases, but don’t ask me or anyone else to do your job because your kid has a runny nose, or pay for your childcare just because you want special treatment.
Me and a lot of other men worked 12 and 16 hours a day, and sometimes more to put a roof our family’s head, clothes on their backs, and food on the table without special treatment or government help. Sorry to say, but women brought this situation on themselves in the 60s and 70s. Women demanded the right to work like a man instead of being housewives, and in doing so they expanded the workforce and opened the door for employers to cut wages since they knew families now had two incomes instead of one, so now do your job and quit whining about having to miss seeing little Johnny play a frog or whatever in the school play. You wanted equality in the workplace, well now you’ve got it. Welcome to the real world ladies.
Comment by Passions Unchained — February 8, 2010 @ 6:21 pm