Mothers in the Labour Market
Schulte (2014) stated that there exists many bosses believe that there exists a zero-sum relationship between family life and work. From Schulte’s illustration, some women are heavily hit when it comes to balancing work and family issues. As a middle mother, creating a viable balance between attending to the children and going to work turns out to be a critical employment issue. From this perspective, Stone and Lovejoy (2011) suggested that some mothers would prefer to stay out of the labor market until their children grow old enough. The tag of war between family and career is a critical issue affecting middle-class mothers. Gender discrimination in the workplace is also another issue.
Although Slaughter’s ideas were dismissed with several individuals, she believed that a middle-class mother could cope up with work and family demand by practicing substandard parenting as well as a substandard commitment to the job. Slaughter also argued that marrying the right person can also help one beat the employment and family balance crisis. Either, Stone and Lovejoy (2011) suggested, some mothers have also succeeded by looking for a part-time job. By doing this, they solve the menace of working 60 hours a week. In the same context, these mothers are also able to create some quality family time.
Mothers who have decided to take sacrifice their career time so as to take care of their children have found it costly regarding their career progress. On most occasions, just as Stone and Lovejoy have illustrated, these mothers sometimes feel marginalized in their workplaces. Furthermore, they are less likely to be promoted in their job positions. It is, therefore, evident that women who take time for their families are less likely to succeed in their careers. However, Slaughter had argued that by reorganization the United States economy, then this woman can succeed.