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30 Jul 2008 Wed 02:40 pm |
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Quoting thehandsom:
Traditional values and all those blah blahs after that is pure hypocrisy ..Because leaving your job, breaking of your career, spending day after day, years after years at home trying to raise children is more difficult than occasional cooking..
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It´s not all blah blah. It´s just that we have to see all. In order to defend women rights, you don´t have to defend them blindly. Fanaticism in everyway is not very healthy.
It has become a classic tactic in debates but if you were a modern woman, you would understand better maybe, whether making decisions between your career plans and baby plans were bullshit or not. In normal conditions, a "normal" woman would want to become a mother at a time in her life, not because of social pressures, or patriarchal society etc but purely because of her nature. Once you decide to be a mother, you see that it does not get along with your career plans and work as well as the men who decide to be a father. You face choices, sacrifices. You think that you do not need to make any sacrifice as a mother? And these sacrifices make you discriminated, and I guess in a normal way because if you seek for complete equality with men and women in work environment, then it´s normal not to be treated differently and to receive any extra toleration for your pregnancy and breastfeeding or because any of your womanly condition.
Breast-feeding is essential for at least 6 month olds and recommended at least for 12 months. What if you want to prefer the healthiness of your baby to your career? Do fathers have to go through all this? She has to express her milk every 2-3 hours a day. So, she would be dicriminated in the work place, she won´t be sent to long meettings, job travels etc.
an article :
boob job: the working mother´s breastfeeding dilemma
As I said, I just want to point out the modern woman´s dilemma.
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