Is the SAHM the new status symbol?

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Is the SAHM the new status symbol?
1697
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

Pages

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-01-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 12:21pm
Im not talking about wealth here Iam talking about average people like you and me making a living. 55 million is HUGE HUGE HUGE money...it also is not a realistic number to use on this board b/c none of us here make that kind of money earning a living. So you are telling me that iyo 100,000 CASH money a year working 4 5 shift's 8 9 hours a day is not great money??? I dont believe it~
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-01-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 12:23pm
Here it is once...http://messageboards.ivillage.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=iv-pssahwoh&msg=12224.893

ill find it agian.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 12:24pm
It depends on where you live.

<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> 

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-19-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 12:24pm
Well, HON we're in a bit of a recession right now too, so I highly doubt the restaurant business is booming.

Nope, I was great at my job. Just didn't pay much. Why would I make something like that up?

You haven't answer my IHOP question . . . where'd you get the $120/day in tips statistic for an IHOP/Denny's waitress?

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 12:27pm
Do you care to post how you contribute to society other than by being a wife and mother?

<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> 

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 12:28pm

Hey girl!

Photobucket
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 12:29pm
I am going to fold and say I don't get it. On the one hand, if (for example) your nanny and I do EXACTLY the same things every day, (and don't add she takes care of her own house too, because after so called working hours, so do I) yet she receives a paycheck, and I don't, she is a more valuable person to society. (Barring all other circumstances) On the other hand, YOU can lead a very meaningful life without a job, you just don't choose to, that just apparently doesn't apply to anyone else.
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-01-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 12:31pm
I got my number from my own experience and the knoweldge of the business because this is what dh does for our living HELLO~and b/c Donna my drinking buddy is a IHop waitress in Florida and makes 120.00 on a average day. Iam not saying any server is wealthy what Iam saying is they make a whole heck more than eveyone assumes they make.

Why would anyone make anything up on a internet board?? You tell me... you seem to be the expert on it.






Edited 10/3/2003 12:49:06 PM ET by silverunity

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 12:31pm
Says the attorney to the woman who owns two restaurants. LOL!
Avatar for homesicktxn
iVillage Member
Registered: 06-26-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 12:31pm
$100,000 a year is not much if it is a single income family living in say... Manhattan.

April

Pages