Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Week #6 Post
Why women have to choose a career on the basis of planning there future family? It seems to me women try to select a profession like teaching so that they will have same hours and holidays as their kids wiil be,in order to raise them well. My niece chose to be a E.R. doctor verses private practice, so she can have flexible hours.I wonder if one of these days men will start thinking in that direction, because more and more women are making higher than men these days.Wood's p314 "As women and men,you can affect what society expects of and admires in each sex".
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3 comments:
Anjum:
I love your progressive thinking!! I'm just sorry it is progressive -- and not more widespread in our society.
I agree -- there is no reason that men cannot think about future family as much as women -- except they are not gendered to and society does not expect them to.
Your quote at the end is perfect! As we have learned in this course societal values can change and a change to men thinking about their careers in terms of future family would benefit both women and men.
Dori
Anjum
Some times culture and stereotypes affect our choices of career. Women, known as the caregivers, they nurture their kids and are always willing to sacrifice for the sake of their family. They always put family first it is their decisions to pick a job where they are around their children all the time. In my case both my husband and I were working in NY and it was, my decision to quite my job and go back to school to be a certified teacher because I concluded that if I did not do that my husband would not do it. Because his culture has an impact on him that woman are the ones who take care of the house. However, I just meet a couple in my daughter’s school and I found out that the father is staying home and he is the one in charge of picking and dropping the kids and the wife is the professional. So now a day our society is changing, because a lot of men and women are exchanging roles at home.
I like that you bring up this point. How many men think about choosing a career that will work around the schedule of raising a child? I think a few, but, the majority are still climbing the corporate letter first. Good point.
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