Interesting [Short] Read

Ttimes3

My company's Women's Networking Group asked the question:

Read a great book, news or magazine article recently on women's leadership, work/life balance or other topics of interest to WNG?

Share the author, title or link in this discussion thread. Or write a short book review.  

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Among a few other good suggestions, I wanted to share this one with all of you.

Forbes recently did a survey on working moms. Here is a link to the Forbes survey:

https://www.forbes.com/pictures/lml45fekh/percentage-of-income

I also thought Meghan Casserly's blog on the survey was interesting:

https://blogs.forbes.com/meghancasserly/2011/06/15/overwhelmed-working-moms-ask-for-help-the-bump/

 

Ttimes3

From the survey, I think I was most shocked to read the following finding: "63% of working moms...agree to the statement 'sometimes I feel like a married single mother.'"

I didn't realize that my experience is in the minority, and that made me sad. Sad for my fellow working mothers and sad for their children. Why aren't the [majority of] working fathers taking a more active role in parenting?

mag2point0

I can see a lot of why this is true. Definitely part of the problem at our house is DH's work schedule. He works longer hours than me and I feel like because he's a man, he has a harder time telling his coworkers he has to be home to take care of the baby. (He works for Toyota and the Japanese culture is quite different.)

Since I work from home, I'll often deal with some house things during the day.But, I think this sort of stress is part of the reason why I don't like working from home as much since having DD. I need a bit of separation between the two.

DH does help a lot, but we were talking about it lately and felt like it was 60/65-40/35. He does a lot of household stuff like cooking and dishes, but there's a lot of stuff he doesn't do. What it comes down to is I 'manage' DD and give him direction. (What she needs or when she needs it type of thing). Now, if only he would retain that direction and just take care of it without my having to tell him EVERY TIME.

doodlebug914

Ttimes3:

I didn't realize that my experience is in the minority, and that made me sad. Sad for my fellow working mothers and sad for their children. Why aren't the [majority of] working fathers taking a more active role in parenting?

Agree 100%!  One of my good friend's husbands is not very active in parenting, and sometimes it blows my mind.  I feel very blessed to have a husband who is very involved!