With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young chil...dren to spend themselves in the coarser work of the world!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The things women find rewarding about work are, by and large ,the same things that men find rewarding and include both the inheren...t nature of the work and the social relationships.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I grew up confidently expecting to have a profession and earn my own living, and also confidently expecting to be married and have... children. It was fifty-fifty with me. I was just as passionately determined to have children as I was to have a career. And my mother was the triumphant answer to all doubts as to the success of this double role. From my earliest memory she had more than half supported the family and yet she was supremely a mother.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Working women today are trying to achieve in the work world what men have achieved all along--but men have always had the help of ...a woman at home who took care of all the other details of living! Today the working woman is also that woman at home, and without support services in the workplace and a respect for the work women do within and outside the home, the attempt to do both is taking its toll--on women, on men, and on our children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Janie works hard, of course, and she's a good wife and mother, but do you know she's never once made a gingerbread house with her ...children?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Modern women are squeezed between the devil and the deep blue sea, and there are no lifeboats out there in the form of public poli...cies designed to help these women combine their roles as mothers and as workers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She isn't harassed. She's busy, and it's glamorous to be busy. Indeed, the image of the on- the-go working mother is very like the... glamorous image of the busy top executive. The scarcity of the working mother's time seems like the scarcity of the top executive's time.... The analogy between the busy working mother and the busy top executive obscures the wage gap between them at work, and their different amounts of backstage support at home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultane...ously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops--in general, doing everything men do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A baby nurse is one that changes diapers and loves 'em dearly. Get up at all hours of the night to give 'em the bottle and change ...their pants. If the baby coughs or cries, you have to find out the need. I had my own room usually, but I slept in the same room with the baby. I would take full charge. It was twenty-four hours. I used to have one day a week off and I'd go home and see my own two little ones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »