Can a family woman have a career?

Question

I see alot of questioning on the lines of should Palin stay home with her family. Why is it that all of a sudden womens rights are throwen out the window. Women have fought for decades to be taken seriously in a career. So I have a few questions.

Would it be ok for an employeer to choose a man over a woman based only on the fact that the women has small children that the employeer thinks need a mother at home?

Is attacking Palin on the basis of her mother hood, saying it should disqualify her, the same as attacking Obama on race, saying it should disqualify him?

Would this even be questioned if it was Mr. Palin running for office with a 4 month at home?

Are men capable of staying at home and raising children?

Answer 1

This woman has too much on her plate  

Answer 2

Of course she can, but THIS woman has 5 children and a grandchild on the way, how the h**l is she going to run the country and tend to these children? Something/Someone is going to SUFFER. I don't want either to suffer.

Answer 3

I am not attacking her but it's hard when you hae a young baby and one with a disability is very hard.  That baby is going to need her attention how will she deal with that. woman can have it all but it's very very hard. I want to knoe if dad is going to stay home once he;s in the white house.

Answer 4

Relax, it's just liberal Dems grasping at straws.

Silly, isn't it?!

Answer 5

It would depend on the career. Palin has too much on her plate already. If she is to be V.P. her focus should be on her country. How is she going to conduct foreign policies and change baby and grandbaby diapers at the same time.

Answer 6

Shhhhhh

allow the Obama supporters to keep exposing their own sexist beliefs

Answer 7

Women can multitask most men can't.

Answer 8

I agree with you.

look at your answers in here though. a few good ones, but a few saying, "She has too much on her plate"

LOLOLOL

13 and 15 years olds in here seem to think THEY know what is and isnt too much for her plate!!

if these people had any clue, they wouldnt be in here trashing Palin, they would be out having a career of their own.

I think today, yahoo is filled 12 year old wannbe's

Answer 9

Any family woman can have a career. Though I am not republican, I do agree that trashing Palin and saying she is leaving her family behind because she has a career is ridiculous.  

Answer 10

A Career  is what you get in a plot line off 'LA Law'.  A Career  is becoming anchorwoman on some news program and reading the autocue.  A Career is being Cagney and Lacey.

The grotesque ceremony of choosing the political leader, and commander in chief of the armed forces of the USA is what the rest of the world is watching.  The position of US President is not a career.  It is the de facto head of world war III if it breaks out tomorrow, and with half the currencies in the world on the slide, and wars going on in half the world, this is not and should not be an exercise in role-challenging, or the remake of Forrest Gump.  The 21st century is not a feel-good movie.

Answer 11

Yes a mother can have a career and I don't think it should disqualify Palin from running. However, Mrs. Palin has the type of support and access to resources that most working women do not have, which makes it difficult to view her as your everyday soceer/hockey mom. Her husband is a stay-at-home dad. It is not mentioned anywhere, but considering that her infant son is a special-needs child, I'm making a good assumption that she has reliable childcare help of at least a nanny. These are things most families can't afford and don't have. You would think being a working mother of 5 would make her sympathetic to the needs of other working mothers and at least make her want to support equal pay for women. But she doesn't. That is what gets me upset and irritated about her running for office.

Answer 12

Well my belief is that she was governor as a pregnant woman, so why can't she be vice president as a mother?

We are in the 21st century. Mothers shouldn't have to be typecast as the ones who stay and take care of the children. That is obviously not how in works in the Palin household, so people should stop criticizing her decision to go to Washington. It's an opportunity for her and a sign of hope for the women of America that we can have a career and a family.

Answer 13

The only thing that irks me a little is that she has a special needs child that requires a lot of extra attention and care and I don't know that she can provide that and serve as VP.