Oh joy, another book pitting working mothers against stay-at-home mothers: In "The Feminine Mistake: Are We Giving Up Too Much?" author Leslie Bennetts argues that the last thing women should do is leave the workforce.
Why add more fuel to the so-called mommy wars? I thought the concept that women were opting out had been put to rest.
While it's true that women who opt-out of the workforce for three years or 10 or 20 take a financial hit, some women decide it's worth the risk. Some women cannot afford to not work, but for those financially secure enough to do so, I say it's their choice.
As the writer who reviewed Bennetts' book for The Washington Post states: "After all these years of supposed equal rights, it seems men still have more important things to do than watch their children, a message relentlessly hammered home by the insufficient day care, inflexible employers and pressure to take 'mommy-tracked' jobs that burden so many mothers' working lives."
It seems to me we spend entirely too much energy fighting each other, when the true battle lies elsewhere.
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I can't say I've read the book here, but from what I see of the author's writing about it on the net, it is more of a concern to her that women aren't actually thinking about career disadvantage, financial dependence, etc. when they opt out of the fulltime workforce.
I don't believe it should be a matter of working mums vs mums at home... But it certainly should be a matter of going into either choice with your eyes open to the advantages and disadvantages with each choice.
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