Do you think working women are more empowered than a stay at home moms?

Question

Do you think working women are more empowered than a stay at home moms?

Answer 1

Been a single mom

Been a Very busy career mom

Working as a Stay a home mom right now...but it's going to be temp thing i cant live like this

Between the three...other two dont have jack on single mom, everything is a fight and a struggle for her.  The flue is a disaster!

Personally i felt a WHOLE lot more empowered, as a career mom.  Love my child...but i had my own world to.  i know some SAHM's love it...good for them and it's silly to assume that all women want the same thing.  I'll tell ya what if it was the 1930's and i HAD to say at home...i would so be one of the "happy little house wifes taking drugs"

Answer 2

a woman needs to determine her priorities- if it is a career and nice things, then i dont think she should have children. kids NEED their mom(and dad) mom is the nurturer and a child at home with mom has a priceless sense of security.

Mom has the POWER to raise her children to her standards and she gives that away to the babysitter in order to persue her carreer. I believe in sacrificing personal ambitions while the children ar young- you can never go back and redo it and the consequences later are devostating. look at our society- it is deteriorating because of a lack of parenting.

Answer 3

In terms of what? Stay at home mothers are empowered with respect to raising the next generation of hopefully responsible, sensitive human beings as well as with local issues like schooling, safety, etc.

Working moms have more empowerment in the workplace, with issues such as on-site daycare centers, pregnancy time off, creating roles and role models for both male and female future generations. Depends on what exactly you're talking about.

Answer 4

i dont want to get married so i dont want to be a house wife or a stay at home mom but i think that stay at home moms are more inportant that working moms, because the children with a mother that stays at home and cares for them tend to be healthy and better behaved, on the other hand working women keep us from falling back into the rut of womans work vs mans work

Answer 5

Not necessarily. It depends on their motives for choosing to work or stay at home.

Answer 6

Not exactly. I am all for womens rights and such...but honestly, women who stay at home are just as powerful as any female who is out and about working all day.

Both have their ups and downs for the average mom, but all in all...I believe it's pretty equal.

I think where people mess up is just not respecting the stay-at-home moms as much as they should.

Answer 7

It depends on the situation.

Some are more bound while for others it gives them greater freedom.

You can't really judge accurately any and all working women/sahm because each is unique

*edit*

I don't care who thumbed me down but could you at least tell me what was wrong with that answer.

Anything other than that would have been a lie which is something I'm not going to do.

Answer 8

Nope.  As long as each person is living their life in the manner in which they freely choose, than they are equal in status.  You only loose your power when you allow someone else to dictate how your life should be run.

Answer 9

Women are empowered by having the 'choice' to be whatever they want.

Answer 10

Not necessarily.

Answer 11

No. The happiness and health  of the husband and children lie in a homemakers hands.  Very Powerful.

Answer 12

No.

Answer 13

No. As far as I can make out, judging by what I read on the Marriage and Divorce section on here, most married women who work end up shouldering most or all of the domestic burden as well, and are permanently exhausted.  And their husbands are free of any obligation to support them, and also free of any obligation to help out on the home front.  It is not an enviable situation to be in.  A life of permanent drudgery is not at all an appealing prospect as far as I am concerned.

And what on earth is 'empowering' about being stuck in some dreary office all day rather than being in the comfort of your own home?

Answer 14

The most empowered women are the ones who live their lives as they see fit. For some, this means working; for others, this means staying home. For me, personally, it means working — constantly.

Answer 15

Not in any way, shape, or form.

In fact, women that choose a path that makes sense to them no matter what society or self-centered ideology (feminism) thinks about that...

Are the embodiment of true empowerment.

A woman that doesn't feel bound by anything is truly empowered.

Feminism has sold the idea that women must work and have a career and anything else is "bowing to the patriarchy" and somehow less important.

Women that reject that one-sided argument and make up their own minds are stronger than those that blindly follow it.

Answer 16

Absolutely.

Answer 17

An empowered person is not dependent upon her circumstances.  Rather, she is a co-creator of her life, setting and achieving the goals of her choice.

Answer 18

You are no more in control of your destiny than a stay at home mom.  Her destiny is her choice and a working woman's destiny is her choice.  Unfortunately, no one is ever totally in charge of their destiny.

Answer 19

That really depends on the women involved.  If a woman feels compelled to work and would rather be home, she's not empowered.  If a woman is home (especially as her kids get older) and she's not active in some community or personal project, she may be trapped in that role and unsure how to escape.

Being empowered means being able to make your own choices and being happy with them.  It's not about money or acceptance by others.  Being empowered means not feeling a need to bow to peer pressure or to make sacrifices that are too hard to live with.

There's a lot to be said for having your "own" money and "a room of one's own."  But there are stay at home moms who have those things...not everyone's situtation is cut from the same cloth.

Are you empowered?  Here's a hint.  When someone says, "and what do you do?" do you smile and tell them, or cringe and demur?

Answer 20

They're definitely less dependent:

"Cost of being a stay-at-home mom: $1 million"

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Col...

Louise, you are confusing career with job.  They are not at all the same thing.  A job is what you are stuck with if you didn't bother to invest time and energy into building up a career.

And the men who don't do their share of housework and domestic duties - need to pitch in and do their fair share.  The free ride is over.

Answer 21

Yes, because since they earn an income, they have greater financial independence and can leave a bad relationship or marriage. They don't have to rely on someone else for support. The reason many women stayed in bad marriages was because they had few other options. They couldn't support themselves. The lucky ones were those who could find friends or relatives to stay with while they tried to put their lives back together.

Edit: I noticed all the comments about women sacrificing their career ambitions and how children are suffering because more women don't want to be stay-at-home mothers but what about the FATHERS of these children? Don't you think children suffer when their fathers put their careers way ahead of their families? Don't you think they also suffer when their fathers are gone nearly all the time and never spend time with them? Why is it all right for a woman to stay at home and raise the children as a single parent while the father is someone who constantly comes and goes? This kind of family arrangement was common when I was a child and believe me, children also had problems. The boys, lacking a role model in their lives, engaged in risky behavior and drug use. The girls looked for father figures by entering into disastrous relationships with older men. Don't overvalue mothers and ignore the fathers. They are just as important to the well-being of a family. A man whose involvement with his family only entails providing a paycheck and being home occasionally is not a father. He's little more than a room mate who pays the bills.