Is the SAHM the new status symbol?

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Is the SAHM the new status symbol?
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Tue, 09-23-2003 - 10:36pm
In the 70's and 80's women fought to get into the workforce (the whole Ms. magazine generation)...and then the tide turned in the late 1990's when more women started to stay home by choice. Now, it seems like being a SAHM is a status symbol....and superior to being a working mom.

Kat

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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 4:39pm
You've NEVER met a SAHD or a man who wanted to SAHD?

Mappers, where are you? Charlesmama?

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iVillage Member
Registered: 09-13-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 4:39pm
Thankful my husband does too. I'm sorry you have such a problem with idea. We don't and we live it.
iVillage Member
Registered: 05-28-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 4:39pm
I also don't see how you can be any clearer.
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-19-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 4:39pm
You disagree that this is a double standard?
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-13-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 4:40pm
Company policy at the hotel.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 4:40pm
Just as old fashioned as allowing women to have no purpose in life other than being available for their families and managing the staff - positively Victorian!!!!

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iVillage Member
Registered: 08-01-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 4:40pm
Okay i rip roared into dh to try get to the bottom of my ignorance all is well in our buisness.



sheesh... nothing like me having this baby here and now =)

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-19-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 4:41pm
Hypothetically then . . . what if a man wanted to do this? Would you frown upon it b/c it isn't "working"? What if a man wanted to live a life of luxury? It's ok for a woman to, so why not a man?
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-13-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 4:42pm
Our daughters will be expected to go to college. They may choose not to use their degree. That will be their choice. We will pay for their entire schooling/housing for however long, however many degrees they desire. They will be encouraged to do what they desire. If that is a career, as I said, that is not frowned upon for women in my dh's family. No one is frowning upon my life or that of my husband. I'm sure you disagree with this and would never want to live like this. But I love it.
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-13-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 4:42pm
No.

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