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Posted on 05/05/2006 8:15:58 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Reconciling motherhood with a career is not a new dilemma. But research suggests that women in Germany have a particularly hard time straddling the divide between a career and being a good mother.
Anke Jentzen didn't want to become one of these "incredibly uncool mothers" whose mental horizon extends about as far as the next playground. Instead she got a degree in marketing and quickly worked her way up the ranks of a renowned Hamburg advertising agency. By the age of 30, she had already been promoted to a management position -- she had plenty of responsibility and the dream job.
She often worked until late into the night, received a big paycheck -- and soon got sick and tired of it all. "I put 100 percent of my energy into the job, but I knew all the time that it wasn't the life for me. It's like with guys: been there, done that."
The turning point was the birth of Jentzen's child. She looked forward to it and was secretly glad to be "relieved from the responsibility that came with my job." She never talked to her husband about how their future life together might look like. "The child wasn't planned, but there was no great fuss when we found out I was pregnant. It was clear from the start that I wanted to have this child." Now Jentzen has two daughters, and she's working in an advertising agency again -- on a part-time basis, earning €400 ($504) a month.
In Germany, the birth of their first child almost inevitably forces young couples back into the lifestyle of their parents, with dad working outside the house and mom in the kitchen. That's the typical division of labor in most German households with children under the age of six.
(Excerpt) Read more at service.spiegel.de ...
God, what's the alternative? Become a lumberjack?
This is like saying men face an unfair choice: Either they remain single or get married.
Oy!
What does fairness have to do with it?
I think there's enough of a body of evidence now to show that socities where women put career ahead of children experience a decline in population.
Further, these socities are quickly displaced by those societies which place children and family first.
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At least women have a choice. How many men are allowed to stay home with their kids and have someone else earn the money?
“The deepest circle of hell is reserved for betrayers and mutineers.” – Captain Jack Sparrow
Just like men face an unfair choice: Work or starve.
While Mr. President proclaims the end of the traditional family, the Axel Springer Verlag Is running a column in the "Bild Zeitung" (Germany's most read newspaper) about adultery, saying this is a kick for every "boring" marriage and that it is normal to betray partners
Yeah, I'd really want to have kids with some jerk who thinks like this.
The worst thing feminism ever did was to make motherhood look bad. I can understand the feminist desire to have women not be looked down on, I can understand the desire to allow women the opportunity to expand their horizons, but why, oh why, did they have to go and sully the traditional roles, hmmm?
I think this speaks volumes about the Liberal mindset. Its not about choice, its not about opportunity, alot of it simply has to do with destroying the status quo.
Yes, life is full of choices. There is simply not enough time to do everything one might wish to do. But is that "unfair"?
Consider the alternative: a life in which no options were available. Would that be any more "fair" than having choices?
With all the recent reports and apparent concern over plagiary, I can't imagine how this same old garbage can be rehashed without at least a good part of it being served up as stale leftovers; better off to miss a deadline than to dirty a clean plate.
And this is a problem because???????????????????
Why is it Leftists think that when something serves humanity well for tens of thousands of years, its somehow a bad thing?
No. Men face an unfair choice: get a job, or be a homeles bum because no woman in her right mind would marry a lazy bum.
Absolutely correct. This is particularly true of virtually all Islamic cultures.
This is another in a long line of BS articles which imply women (or is that wimyn) are supposed to have job pander to their career and maternal whims.
I guess that stay at home husband neutering program did not work out. The feminsts were not able to convince nomal women that motherhood is eeeeevil. (though in california it appears to have succeeded in outlawing the words "mom" and "mother" as a matter of law. really)
The between the lines of this article are that children are not mere accessories. Children require a mother who is going to be THERE to help grow her child.
I also think its significat that this article from germany hides the fact that socialism is predicated on both mother and father working as slaves to the state and no stay at home mothers.
Oh, drat, here's the dilemma...what about those of us who do it both, work in our homes (business work, not housework...that chit never goes away!) and stay home with the kids? Hmmm....I think that's a choice too, but one that is woefully underreported.
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