It's completely and totally socially acceptable to tell women they are basically abusing their children by choosing to go to work whereas so-called "stay at home moms" are hailed as heros. Staying home to raise children is considered "real work." If you are female you are not "allowed" to find spending all day at home young children anything but hard work that's incredibly fulfilling.
People lost their god-damned minds and there was profuse apologies when a Hillary Clinton rep made the accurate statement that “Ann Romney has never worked a day in her life." You would think she was called a serial killer with how people reacted.
(Not to mention the quote from the article you took offense to wasn't even actually demeaning, people state their preferences all the time. Nobody gets uppity and offended when someone says, for example, "I don't want to be chained to a desk all day," which is a common preference people state. Your offense at a non-offensive statement basically reinforces that a woman with young children isn't "allowed" to state that they desire to be away from their children to participate in the workforce - stating that preference is literally offensive.)
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I see all of your anti-working-mom points regularly. It's a matter of your social info bubble.
In general I agree, but I think only the one viewpoint is commonly acceptable today in media and with thought leaders. Maybe that's my bubble talking.
Oh, please, the majority of Americans believe that a child suffers when both parents work outside the home
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2014/04/08/chapter...
It's completely and totally socially acceptable to tell women they are basically abusing their children by choosing to go to work whereas so-called "stay at home moms" are hailed as heros. Staying home to raise children is considered "real work." If you are female you are not "allowed" to find spending all day at home young children anything but hard work that's incredibly fulfilling.
People lost their god-damned minds and there was profuse apologies when a Hillary Clinton rep made the accurate statement that “Ann Romney has never worked a day in her life." You would think she was called a serial killer with how people reacted.
(Not to mention the quote from the article you took offense to wasn't even actually demeaning, people state their preferences all the time. Nobody gets uppity and offended when someone says, for example, "I don't want to be chained to a desk all day," which is a common preference people state. Your offense at a non-offensive statement basically reinforces that a woman with young children isn't "allowed" to state that they desire to be away from their children to participate in the workforce - stating that preference is literally offensive.)