Going Backwards with Women's Lib

Interesting topic. While on campus, I turned into the "resident feminist". I have no idea how this happened. Like you, I also feel that the Women's Liberation was about choices. It would seem as if the goals of children constantly change with each stage. I wanted to be a doctor, lawyer, police woman, pediatric nurse and a writer. Oh-- and a teacher! I'm still pursuing three of those goals, but just two years ago I was considering being a stay-at-home mom. I suspect that the trend for children follows the current statistics regarding the amount of stay-at-home moms. A lot of kids want to be just like mommy.

its wrong if you dont want to work but stay at home moms or housewives also as working

Is there a particular trend either way? I honestly don't know. I wonder if the comic strip was making a point about young girls in general, or more on a one on one basis. That no matter how few want to be stay at home moms, it could still be a shock for the older generation who fought (and still fight) to make the idea that girls can do anything a normal concept. Not that I think it should be. I also feel that being a stay at home mom is a valid choice as is being in the workforce. But, I could imagine some mothers wondering if their daughter chose that because they don't think they have any other options. It would be interesting if there was a study on the way the general population leans.

In places where a woman can afford to stay at home she would often like to stay at home as it has been brought out that nursing and other maternal care activities do assist the infants in their development into good human beings. Yet, there is a lot of demand for women to work. I know of many women who have no choice but to work and these numbers are increasing. The housing costs have long been too high and are not dropping down as much as is needed to decrease the need to work. Add to that the increased gasoline prices, increased food prices, etc. and there is often a need for husbands and wives to work two jobs a piece... leaving the children in the hands of relatives or in low-priced babysitters. It is a sad thing here... especially when there are radio experts who lambast women for not staying at home with their children. The women who are unable to stay home with their children are made to feel like heels thus adding to their stress. There may not be as much push for women in some circles to move up the ladder but there is still the need for women to work to support their families even in the two-parent homes. Of course that need is greater when the mother alone runs the household. We have continued to see an increase in single parent homes and that is sad as the children in these homes do suffer often from not having the economic security of two parent families as well as losing out on other things... But they will learn how to survive and be stronger as a result.

I must admit that I do not know what trend is going on where I am, much less where you are. But I do meet many educated ladies who stays home to look after their little ones. My daughters are too young but my 16 year old niece has stated clearly that she wanted to marry a rich man and stay home (my bad influence (sans the rich husband) I guess. Her mother, my sister, has a degree and is a nurse). Our advice to her is that she should proceed to go as highly educated as she can because if her rich husband suddenly cannot provide for her, she is still totally independent. My personal opinion is a lady's high education is never wasted. If she stays home, she can impart many things that she has learnt to her offsprings. I pride myself that my children are doing better than those children whose grandmoms decide that their daughters should not pursue an education not higher than secondary school (very common in my community). I am very irritated when I hear people say that a woman should not pursue her degree or higher because she is going to end up in the kitchen (again very common in my community). Last and not least I want to give credit to those ladies who are like my late mother who despite her elementary education, had a far foresight to send her daughters to pursue an education as high as she wants.