Not that I think that’s a bad place to find yourself at certain times in your life.

But, all women are not the same. My place is where I decide it is.

People just see things differently and it’s maturity that allows us to see that and respect it.

What I don’t like to see is women doing something they don’t want to be doing.

According to Pew Research Center Survey more than one-half of women are doing something they don’t want to be doing.

• 60% of women who work full-time wish they worked part-time (19% wanted to not work at all).
• 50% of women who stay-at-home wished they worked, (33% part-time, 16% full-time).

The feminist revolution held lots of assumptions that well, they just didn’t pan out quite like we thought.

The child-care situation isn’t as rosy as we predicted and maybe we underestimated our own mother-love.

Whatever our personal assumptions were or our economic realities turned out to be – we don’t have to hate the past to change our present.

What we do have to do is get proactive about making what we want our reality.

• Paid family leave so no mother has to go back to work days after giving birth,
• Public universal pre-school,
• Major investments in child care so having a child is no longer the top reason American families have “a poverty spell”,
• After school programs for all kids who need them,
• Health care for all children,
• Benefits for part-time workers, and
• Telecommuting incentives so parents have more flexible work options.

Women are a special interest group that makes of half the population. We need to get serious about voting for our own interests.

Interestingly,73% of men are happy working full-time (and doing only 25% of the housework and childcare). But, most likely they are sick of hearing us complain about our unhappiness with our work-home balance, so this is in their best interests too.

Momsrising is telling every candidate that women want a family-friendly America.

I’m ordering the Motherhood Manifesto DVD for my book-club right now.

Post from: Blisstree

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