In "The Opt-Out Revolution", Belkin describes how successful women have to put their prestigious careers on hold so that they can raise families. One response to Belkin's article, by Mrs. Granju, protests Belkin as narrow-minded because she only sees one side of the issue. Personally, I think that Belkin's article is extremely disheartening because women clearly have to sacrifice so much to have a family. It is almost impossible to raise a family while having a high-career job such as a doctor or lawyer. As a result, this puts tension on women. My Mom had to sacrifice her career so that she could raise me and my brothers. She was a nurse and when she was pregnant with me she decided that staying at home with me was the most important thing. She just recently went back to work at another hospital and is very pleased with her decision. I think that I would make the same decision that my mom made because I really want to stay at home and take care of my family.
Readings ch. 6 & 9:
In both readings it discusses women in the work force and their effect on the world as either a stay at home mom or as a mother in the work force. Personally, I want to be a stay at home mom and have a big family to take care of. At the same time I also want to be in the workforce and have a high-career job. I can easily see why women have this feeling of being torn between being a stay at home mom and working. For my ethnography paper, I interviewed a woman who chose to sacrifice her career so that she could be a stay at home mom. She recently just started working again...she hadn't worked for 20 years because she was taking care of her kids. I cannot wait to share more of the insight she gave me in my ethnography paper.
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