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Essay on Working Mothers
Good working mothers may bedifferentiated from good mothers, in general, and stay-at-home mothers, in particular, through their arrangement of child care. Ironically, their pride in their family role is not through mothering per se or providing sustenance for their children. Instead, they experience pride through their acts of locating others to mother their children and in managing their complex lives.
Unless good working mothers are satisfied with their initial arrangements with family members, they go to great lengths to describe very different and sometimes multiphase processes of child care arranging for which they perceived themselves as responsible. Their child care arrangements depend on middle-class status because, with a couple of exceptions, they bring their children to day care centers or hire nannies and say nothing about worries over funds for child care.
They see child care arrangements as a multi-step process. Moreover, they view financial concern and, since most label themselves as upper middle class, married, and the top salesperson in a company, they apparently have no qualms about in-house child care costs. Most of the time the husband does not play a part in voicing child care arrangement preferences but he is the reason for most of them to return to paid work. They start a business and they need their income to support their family. Otherwise, these mothers might have been stay-at-home mothers since leaving their infants, particularly the first one, is vert difficult for them emotionally.
In contrast to feminist writings critiquing how women experience exhaustion through shouldering the burden of child care as part of the second shift (Hochschild, 1989), most working mothers seem to not only find these arrangements suitable but also seemed proud of their abilities to work through complex work-family challenges. These impressions emerged both in what was said and not said. Although most working mothers express feelings of pride and accomplishment in the doing child care themselves......
