Feminine Riles: Cartoons to Promote ThoughtThe Working mom is a modern-day superhero
Compared to men, studies have shown that a working mom works a 98-hour workweek
Here are their challenges between holding down a full-time job, and spending 2x more time on housework, and 4x more time raising children compared to men
| If a woman looks after a house and cares for her own children in her own home, then according to statisticians she is not working. — ☿ — But if she takes paid employment, pays someone else to raise her children, and to care for her house, then she, the nanny, and the domestic would all be classified as working. — ☿ — Conclusion: Caring for a house and children is work only if money changes hands. Don’t get no respect, ladies, ‘less you charge for it! |
| “Life demands a huge price from a woman – almost her entire existence – in the form of everyday life. 〰 ⚤ 〰 Even in my present mode of life, I have to spend a much greater time and energy than a man for the sake of everyday life. 〰 ⚤ 〰 Not in an abstract manner as is the case with a man, but in a really concrete, urgent manner to provide daily food and clothes for the household.” –Kamiya Mieko (Japanese psychiatrist) |
To read more about Kamiya Mieko and her life’s work, you can purchase her book on Amazon for as low as $14.97 for kindle, and $39.95 for hardcover
| Men have wives at home to do the housework, to prepare the food, and care for the children. This allows them to climb the ladder of success unencumbered. 〰 ⚤ 〰 A woman, unless she chooses to be childless, or is wealthy, climbs that same ladder with a huge burden on her back. 〰 ⚤ 〰 Isn’t it time for men to come out of the cosset? |
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We all know there are no days off in parenting—and research shows just how hard moms are working. A study released by Welch’s looked at 2,000 American moms of kids between five and 12 years old, and found the average hours moms work per week is 98. As in the equivalent of two-and-a-half full-time jobs.
– Mother.ly
| (a) Holding a full-time job is demanding, hard-work. — ⚤ — (b) Caring for house, hubby, and heirs is demanding, hard work and a full-time job. — ⚤ — Studies show: Men do (a) and contribute little to (b). Women do (a) and the majority of (b). — ⚤ — Men have been privileged to focus on (a) because they can rely on some woman to step-in and do (b) for them. Women still have to do both and cannot rely on anyone to step-in and do (b) for them. — ⚤ — Cultural Advantage: Men. Cultural Handicap: Women. — ⚤ — Men have no more right to crow to women about their “success” in the business world, and how that success is derived from their superior “attachment” to their work, than a fighter who has beaten an opponent with his hands tied behind his back. |
A double burden (AKA double day, second shift, or double duty) is the workload many women face while working to earn money while also carrying the burden of an outsized share of responsibility for domestic labor.
Learn more about the Double Burden that modern women face.
Behind every great man, there is a great woman
– Anonymous
| Wife: A critical evolutionary development which allowed the male of the species to successfully avoid the question: 〰 ⚤ 〰 “How do you do it – combine a family with a career?” 〰 ⚤ 〰 Unfortunately, this valuable adaptation has mutated and seems to have developed a mind of its own. |
While the origin is unknown, the first printed citation of “behind every great man, there’s a great women,” is from a Texas Newspaper when quoting Meryll Frost, a Canadian-born football player, who uttered these words after he was awarded the “Most Courageous Athlete of the Year” in 1946.
While I’m not a great man, there’s a great woman behind me.
– Meryll Frost
This shows beyond a reasonable doubt that over 75 years ago, there were people that believed in gender equality. That is the inspiration for our next comic …
By the 1960s and 1970s the women’s feminism adopted the slogan: “Behind every great man is an even greater woman.”
| According to a study done by Salary.com, a full-time stay-at-home mom works 96 hours/week. 〰 ⚤ 〰 A working mom can expect to put-in nearly 100 hours per week. 〰 ⚤ 〰 A woman’s options: Worked to death regardless of her choice. |
According to Welch’s, the average mom gets going around 6:23 a.m. and the work doesn’t stop until 8:31 p.m. (And, for many of us, that sounds like a good day.)
– Mother.ly
| At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent. – Golda Meir 〰 ⚤ 〰 When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. – Sophia Loren 〰 ⚤ 〰 Take motherhood … the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. – Barbara Ehrenreich 〰 ⚤ 〰 By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh 〰 ⚤ 〰 We have a secret in our [doula] culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong. – Laura Stavoe Harm 〰 ⚤ 〰 Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. – Barbara Kingsolver |
| Women’s rights in essence is really a movement for freedom, a movement for equality, for the dignity of all women, for those who work outside the home and those who dedicate themselves with more altruism than any profession I know to being wives and mothers, cooks and chauffeurs, and child psychologists and loving human beings. – Jill Ruckelshaus 〰 ⚤ 〰 There is an unspoken pact that women are supposed to follow. I am supposed to act like I constantly feel guilty about being away from my kids. (I don’t. I love my job.) Mothers who stay at home are supposed to pretend they are bored and wish they were doing more corporate things. (They don’t. They love their job.) – Amy Poehler 〰 ⚤ 〰 To nourish children and raise them against odds is any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.” – Marilyn French 〰 ⚤ 〰 You go through big chunks of time where you’re just thinking, ‘This is impossible — oh, this is impossible.’ And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible. – Tina Fey (on being a working Mother) 〰 ⚤ 〰 Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. – Elizabeth Stone 〰 ⚤ 〰 There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one. – Jill Churchill |
What is the economic value of housework?
| Based on a survey of stay-at-home mothers, Salary.com calculates a full-time, stay-at-home mom would earn $162,581 US if she was actually paid for all her work. 〰 ⚤ 〰 “With a nearly 96-hour work-week and a six-figure annual rate, moms may be the most valuable workers in the country.” 〰 ⚤ 〰 Housekeeping, day-care, teacher, cook, computer expert, laundress, janitor, facilities manager, chauffeur, CEO, psychologist, nurse … if Society paid women what their labour is actually worth, Society would be bankrupted. |