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If you read Linda Hirshman's piece on how college-educated women who stay at home (even part-time) are destroying feminism, or my take on it, and think that your story deserves its place in the databanks alongside those 35 women Hirshman found from the Sunday Styles Weddings section of the New York Times, well, we agree. Over the next weeks we'll be featuring a profile of one of our readers every day.
We'd like to talk to moms mostly, as after all this piece is about feminism, but we'll profile a few dads and the childcare choices they've made, if their stories seem to fit the narrative. We're looking for both those that chose to stay at home, and those who didn't - and college-educated to fit Hirshman's definition of "elite." Leave a comment here or send a tip to us and I'll contact you further with some questions.
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12-18-2005 @ 6:50PM
Wood said...Thanks for covering this, Sarah. The article was intriguing and appalling and infuriating all at the same time. I've really enjoyed reading everyone's responses and seeing how other moms combine work and childrearing.
Here are my stats:
I have a law degree and currently work full time, out of the home, at a legal non-profit organization (I have fallen for the "idealism" trap that Hershman laments). My position only has funding through the end of this month, and beginning in January I'll be staying home with our daughter until my next full-time job starts in August (in Detroit). My husband (Dutch) also works full-time as a lawyer, but once we move to Detroit, he'll be staying home and working from there.
I'm not sure I could balance working from home -- I'm the sort of person that needs an office with no distractions. I'm impressed at the way you and others manage to combine it all, and I have to admit that it sounds ideal. I think the perfect scenario for me would be a job where I could work part-time in the office and part-time at home. So far, though -- I haven't found a job with that kind of flexibility. Maybe someday.
And while I'm excited to not work for a few months and to be with our daughter all day, I'm only staying home because that's how my jobs lined up. My work is too important to me to stay home indefinitely -- and I don't think I'm very good at mothering full-time.
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12-18-2005 @ 6:50PM
Maky said...I didnt have a choice I had to return to work. It was the most difficult thing I had to do, my son was born premature and I wasnt ready to leave him in the care of another person. Every day I left crying and praying that nothing happens while I'm at work. I wish these so called "feminist" and society would stop making mothers who stay at home feel guilty. I think being a stay home mom is one of the most important and difficult jobs in the world!
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