News Roundup
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Some of the articles of interest to working mothers that we’ve seen around the web recently…
- Racked has a message to share about maternity wear: “Dear Maternity Clothes: Please Stop Being So Ugly.”
- Gallup has released a report called “Women in America: Work and Life Well-Lived” after surveying more than 323,500 adults. When working mothers were asked if they’d prefer to have a job outside the home or stay at home and take care of the house and family (if they could do either), 54% of women with children under 18 said that they would rather stay home.
- NPR looks at paid family leave around the world.
- New York magazine’s The Cut reports on a new UNICEF report that shows “Girls spend 40 percent more time than boys doing household chores. … Across the world, girls between the ages of 5 and 14 spend 160 million more hours cooking, cleaning the house, taking care of family members, and collecting water and firewood.”
- Kids around the country are not exactly thrilled that FluMist is no longer recommended for them because it’s less effective than the flu shot, but The New York Times’ Well Family has tips for making the vaccine less scary and less painful.
- The Washington Post’s On Parenting tells you how to avoid becoming a helicopter parent.
- Also from Well Family: a mother shares her harrowing efforts to get her daughter to stay in her room at night and actually sleep.
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I am devastated about the Flu Mist going away for the kids. Those 4 year shots traumatized my 8 year old — I’m not sure how we are handling this yet this year…. probably some bribe.
I find it hard to believe that 54% of working mothers would prefer to stay home. I wonder what percent of working fathers feel the same. And how much of it is because we have family-un-friendly policies that put the burden of child-rearing largely on the mother’s shoulders.
I absolutely love working and could not stay home, but my 10 week maternity leaves (unpaid) were still way too short. If we had paid leaves that encouraged both parents to bond with the child (and allow the mother to fully recover) would that change the dynamic?
Or if schools were the length of a typical work day, would that help moms feel better about working? If dads were expected to run the PTA, would that impact their preferences? If dads were largely in charge of finding after-school-care and scheduling the summer care, would that?