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| − | Several of the other readings dealt with the increasing notion of women working outside the home, in addition to raising a family. As Marnia Farnham points out, the progress that has been made in terms of opportunities and technologies for women “serves less to clarify and simplify her life than to complicate it with conflict piled on conflict…” (412). She goes further to say that women are no longer making progress for feminization but have instead begun to become more masculine. Is she suggesting that these women are gradually leaving their traditional gender roles and should be classified as women only in a biological sense? In order to be equal do they both first have to be defined as “masculine?” --Jessica Kilday | + | Several of the other readings dealt with the increasing notion of women working outside the home, in addition to raising a family. As Marnia Farnham points out, the progress that has been made in terms of opportunities and technologies for women “serves less to clarify and simplify her life than to complicate it with conflict piled on conflict…” (412). '''She goes further to say that women are no longer making progress for feminization but have instead begun to become more masculine. Is she suggesting that these women are gradually leaving their traditional gender roles and should be classified as women only in a biological sense? In order to be equal do they both first have to be defined as “masculine?”''' --Jessica Kilday |
I find this article interesting because I actually see a lot of parallels between this period and what some people today still believe. First, I noticed that they attack the idea of child day care systems that, according to them, leave a child unsatisfied. In today's society I know many women who feel that day care, at least for children below pre-school age, is a bad idea because it doesn't teach them the discipline that children need to learn. I found this connection to today's world very striking as I was reading this article.-Elizabeth Frank | I find this article interesting because I actually see a lot of parallels between this period and what some people today still believe. First, I noticed that they attack the idea of child day care systems that, according to them, leave a child unsatisfied. In today's society I know many women who feel that day care, at least for children below pre-school age, is a bad idea because it doesn't teach them the discipline that children need to learn. I found this connection to today's world very striking as I was reading this article.-Elizabeth Frank | ||
| − | I personally disagree with the view that child day care for under pre-school aged children is "a bad idea". I think that the only people it might affect negatively are the parents and in a, let's call it "standard," situation, the mother especially. Putting a young child in a system where they interact with other children not only builds their social skills from the get-go, it keeps them from developing attachment issues with over-protective parents, and finally, it builds their immune system by being around other gross babies and toddlers. The affects on a working mother can be negative, despite the good (having time to work and help financially support her family). Take my family for instance. My mother always said she regretted putting her first three children in day care so young (emotionally-she would have liked to stay closer to us in these special, fleeting years), but there were no perceivable effects on us developmentally. With her fourth child, however, she was able to stay home until the child was in elementary school (my little sister is clingy to her parents to this day). ~Jackie Reed | + | '''I personally disagree with the view that child day care for under pre-school aged children is "a bad idea".''' I think that the only people it might affect negatively are the parents and in a, let's call it "standard," situation, the mother especially. Putting a young child in a system where they interact with other children not only builds their social skills from the get-go, it keeps them from developing attachment issues with over-protective parents, and finally, it builds their immune system by being around other gross babies and toddlers. The affects on a working mother can be negative, despite the good (having time to work and help financially support her family). Take my family for instance. My mother always said she regretted putting her first three children in day care so young (emotionally-she would have liked to stay closer to us in these special, fleeting years), but there were no perceivable effects on us developmentally. With her fourth child, however, she was able to stay home until the child was in elementary school (my little sister is clingy to her parents to this day). ~Jackie Reed |
I am not sure if a woman helped write this article, but I find it interesting that there existed a significant proportion of women activists who did not believe women should work outside of the home and the ideals of the Cult of Domesticity. It almost seems as if it is one of those cases where society's ideals have permanently lowered an individual's self-esteem. I am very tempted to conclude that it is a very similar lowering of self-esteem as that described in Brown v. Board, but I wouldn't want to get ahead of myself. --Justin Mattos | I am not sure if a woman helped write this article, but I find it interesting that there existed a significant proportion of women activists who did not believe women should work outside of the home and the ideals of the Cult of Domesticity. It almost seems as if it is one of those cases where society's ideals have permanently lowered an individual's self-esteem. I am very tempted to conclude that it is a very similar lowering of self-esteem as that described in Brown v. Board, but I wouldn't want to get ahead of myself. --Justin Mattos | ||
