I Respect Women Homemakers

By randy-johnson

Wed, 19 May 2021
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I have no problem with women who work. But I do respect women who are homemakers more because that was what my mother did. Dad worked and Mom was in charge of taking care of the budget. I moved to my house in February of 1977 at the age of five. If Dad had been in charge of taking care of the budget, we might have lost my house by 1980.

Mom was going to get a part time job, and Dad would've had to look after my older brother and I while she worked. Dad told Mom "They'll be completely different boys. You won't even know them". Mom didn't like the sound of that at all. She figured that Dad might have been mean to my brother and I, and he probably would have. Because of this, Mom didn't take the job.

Feminists will probably be offended by this article but I don't care. There's nothing wrong with women who are homemakers. There's also nothing wrong with women who work. But if you're a woman homemaker and people are hounding you to get a job, pay no attention to them. If being a homemaker makes you happy, tell them to mind their own damn business.

 

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Submitted by Jane Hyphen on

I consider myself a feminist and I also agree with everything you've said here. The unpaid work that, predominantly women, do in the home in regard to childcare has a value far and above any value derived from the workplace.  Nobody has a right to hound somebody else to get a job. You leave your job and your manager's forgotten your name after two weeks.

 

Submitted by celticman on

I was brought up in the sixties and seventies. Married women didn't work. My mum didnt until had too. Most families now are depedent on dual incomes. Mum and Dad working. Not a feminist issue, but an economic imperative. 

 

Submitted by Jane Hyphen on

The average cost of a nursery place in London is £1400 per month, per child (20% covered by government, more for lower income families but involves some organisation and often covers just 38 weeks of the year). Work doesn't always pay unless you're lucky enough to have family to help out it's usually left to older, female family members, grandmothers who tend to be even older now when their granchildren are born. It's no wonder the birth rate is dropping at an alarming rate.