Is the SAHM the new status symbol?

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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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Registered: 05-28-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 4:43pm


It's a sad day for women's lib....
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 4:43pm
I don't care if your family does or does not frown on you and your DH. But if they frown on him if he doesn't work, they should frown on you ALSO for not working!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This may be the old fashioned way it is, but it's a double standard. Even if it's a double standard you are ok with, it's still a double standard.

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Registered: 08-19-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 4:44pm
That's what I said. Policy at the hotel, but not in your home. Why is there a policy like this at the hotel? To preserve the environment perhaps?
iVillage Member
Registered: 05-28-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 4:44pm
And WHY is that a company policy at the hotel? Perhaps it's to not waste water?
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-13-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 4:44pm
I have a purpose in life. I'm sure you don't think I do. But I do. So that point is not true in how we believe. We don't believe you have to "contribute to society" as you take huge issue with, volunteering, working outside the home to have "purpose in life". I'd find that sad and not the way I'd want to live thinking like that.
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-19-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 4:45pm
I hope it went ok!
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-19-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 4:46pm
Yes, you live a double standard.
iVillage Member
Registered: 07-21-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 4:46pm
Don't be so defensive. I wasn't putting down waitressing, did you miss the post where I said I waitressed when I was in college? Obviously.

What I said was that waitressing was not fun, and it isn't. It's hard work, and despite silver and your claims that it's lucrative, it isn't. Now maybe if you need to make some money and don't have a skill or professional degree to get a well paying career, then yes, waitressing is a way to make a quick buck, but I hardly recommend it as a long term career goal.

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-13-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 4:46pm
That is your opinion and you are entitled to believe that way. I don't. We don't. Women can and are encouraged w/blessings to have careers if they desire. They aren't holding women at home. Women stay home if they desire that lifestyle. I do.
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Registered: 09-13-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 4:47pm
I could care less. Have it at!

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