As a married, college-going, knowledge seeking woman, I am here to say that the negative treatment of women must stop! Now, as many of you are nodding your heads and starting to join me in my feminist plight, I caution you to understand that my fight for feminism is very different from others that you have seen.
My fight is to stop others from saying that traditional roles for women is narrow-minded and a waste of a brain. Believe me, I will be the last to say that women sole role is to stand barefoot in the kitchen cooking and mopping the floor. In fact, I will say that womanhood is a powerful force to be reckoned with and that includes (but is not limited to) homemakers and stay at home moms. Society would have us believe that if a wife or mother stays home, she is being oppressed, she is not being provided with the adequate opportunities for personal development, and that she has "settled" for a less desirable path. Frankly, those that say this have likely not fully examined the role of a wife and homemaker.
Let me lay motherhood out in job advertisement form and then see what kind of woman would fill this position.
Looking for a mother who must be capable of meeting these roles:
1. Team Player: focus on the success of your team rather than purely individual success
2. Manage Assets: keep track of and plan fiscal matters
3. Good planner: plan and carry out group activities
4. Managerial Roles: responsible for guiding a team through mental, physical, and emotional challenges so that they can become functional beings
5. Organization: Keep track of endless moving parts
6. Inventory: Keep track of and plan kitchen stock within a budget
7. Cook and clean: You will be responsible for sustaining and maintaining a healthy and happy work environment for your team
8. Counselor: You must have the mental capacity to counsel your team on personal and team matters.
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This employers list continues on, but I think you get the point. The second part of this exercise is to figure out what brainless, uneducated, and naive woman could properly fill these advertised responsibilities (plus some)? There isn't one!
In fact, there probably is no other job on this Earth that would utilize a college degree in a more encompassing way than this. Not to mention the personal development achieved through, planning, managing, maintaining, and leading a family unit. This is a real job and not one to be scoffed at.
Choosing this path is not a disgrace to the gender of woman and to think that some paint it as such is insulting. This profession proves what women can truly accomplish. It is a noble cause to raise human beings to become stable, functional, and successful people. Mothers, you have the ability to shape what future every one of us lives in. Hats off to you.
My fight is to stop others from saying that traditional roles for women is narrow-minded and a waste of a brain. Believe me, I will be the last to say that women sole role is to stand barefoot in the kitchen cooking and mopping the floor. In fact, I will say that womanhood is a powerful force to be reckoned with and that includes (but is not limited to) homemakers and stay at home moms. Society would have us believe that if a wife or mother stays home, she is being oppressed, she is not being provided with the adequate opportunities for personal development, and that she has "settled" for a less desirable path. Frankly, those that say this have likely not fully examined the role of a wife and homemaker.
Let me lay motherhood out in job advertisement form and then see what kind of woman would fill this position.
Looking for a mother who must be capable of meeting these roles:
1. Team Player: focus on the success of your team rather than purely individual success
2. Manage Assets: keep track of and plan fiscal matters
3. Good planner: plan and carry out group activities
4. Managerial Roles: responsible for guiding a team through mental, physical, and emotional challenges so that they can become functional beings
5. Organization: Keep track of endless moving parts
6. Inventory: Keep track of and plan kitchen stock within a budget
7. Cook and clean: You will be responsible for sustaining and maintaining a healthy and happy work environment for your team
8. Counselor: You must have the mental capacity to counsel your team on personal and team matters.
9....................................................
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102.......................
This employers list continues on, but I think you get the point. The second part of this exercise is to figure out what brainless, uneducated, and naive woman could properly fill these advertised responsibilities (plus some)? There isn't one!
In fact, there probably is no other job on this Earth that would utilize a college degree in a more encompassing way than this. Not to mention the personal development achieved through, planning, managing, maintaining, and leading a family unit. This is a real job and not one to be scoffed at.
Choosing this path is not a disgrace to the gender of woman and to think that some paint it as such is insulting. This profession proves what women can truly accomplish. It is a noble cause to raise human beings to become stable, functional, and successful people. Mothers, you have the ability to shape what future every one of us lives in. Hats off to you.