Essays on Working Mothers

Contrasting Two Cultures with a Model of Culture

The model of culture to be used in this part of the paper is Professor Geert Hofstede’s Model of National Cultures. Professor Hofstede is famous for his study wherein he looked at how values in the workplace are influenced by particular cultures. He was a consultant working with IBM in the 1970s and 1980s, and thus he was able to observe various workplace cultures around the world (Geert Hofstede: National Culture). Originally, he came up with four dimensions of culture along which behaviors could be linked and thereafter analyzed. The original dimensions are Individualism-Collectivism, Uncertainty Avoidance, Power Distance ( ...

Introduction

Brannigan foods was facing a major challenge as the soup industry had been on a continuous decline, with the market share and profitability dwindling in the last three years before 2012.Although the condensed and the ready- to-eat (RTE) soup were a staple in the USA by 2012, the concerns about health and obesity had reduced the consumption of processed foods and products with high sodium contents. The issue of reduction in the consumption of the processed food was particularly pronounced among the baby boomer generation. There was also an increasing demand for the fast, simple meals among the working ...

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This paper covers the various ways working women manage themselves and look after their children simultaneously. It describes how working mothers handle their personal and professional lives, the impacts of such a routine on the family, especially on children’s development. When a mother is pregnant or raising toddlers, it is not possible for a lot of them to quit their jobs. In particular, the breadwinners who need to provide for their family find it extremely difficult to leave their jobs just like that. This article will demonstrate how the children get affected, both positively and negatively, when they ...

A child needs stable family connections with the nurturing presence of their adults, which is their mother. Childhood is the most impersonating time of a person’s life which either makes or breaks a person. A mother is the direct source of influence and her ability to form a bond, provide paternal security and nurturing children’s needs by a constant guidance throughout. There are several factors, situations, condition and financial surrounding which help in influencing the children and generate long term benefits on upcoming generations.

Influences of Working Mothers on Children

During 1970-80s, the rate of working mothers was less as compare to today. ...

Needless to say, the 21st century provides a challenging situation for working mothers. Women who choose to develop and pursue careers while establishing families with children often find themselves in over their heads. These women are forced to keep up with their professional lives in addition to keeping up with maternal duties that have been set well in advance of the current era. Therefore, the rules that the women of the modern era follow are ones set up by those women who were strictly focused on being a homemaker and mother. Fulfilling the role of one’s career in ...

'Work-family balance', or WFB, is the topic that has garnered the interests of academicians, management Tsars, and researchers. With growing competition and stress in the business environment, family life is likely to get affected thereby putting a negative impact on the work productivity. Thus, making a balance between work schedule and family life is of utmost importance if one wishes to have an overall satisfied life. However, identifying related family-specific variables and studying their impact on work-family conflict ( WFC) are some of the pre-requisites to boil down to the balancing part. This paper aims to review the available literature ...

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The paper focuses on the effects that the full-time employment of both parents may have on children. Different studies are analyzed. The results of one show that the impact can be seen in adult life. The other study, however, proves that the effect of working parents on children can be seen as early as four and a half years of page. Nevertheless, a solution is presented for parents - working part-time. In the modern world, stay at home mothers seems to be a thing of the past, a remnant of the 1960s or so. One imagines that in a ...

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Andy’s Parties emerged as a successful startup for eight years from an unexpected uncovering of a robust and growing market for children’s birthday party. The business operates in a large market of working women with no time to arrange and manage their children’s birthday parties and who are willing and capable of paying the price for party services. While working mothers are getting more aware of their motherhood and marital obligations, their careers remained essential to their selfhood, making forcing them to choose both and balance the demands from either. The full service offer that Andy’ ...

Introduction

Women as caregivers is a significant issue because it has been hypothesized by many scholars that the stress associated with multiple roles can be conducive to physical and mental health problems. However, this is a controversial topic because they are some experts who contend that benefits are gained with this additional responsibility. There appears to be a myriad of literature that places emphasis on the stress of women engaging in multiple roles. Women have always been considered responsible for domestic chores. parenting and in some instances caring for elderly parents. A few decades ago women were not required to work outside ...

A typical morning in the house of two working parents with young children starts with stress. The person who takes the responsibility of daily chores of everyone getting ready, packing food for the day, breakfast and reaching their destination is under stress. In any culture across the world mothers feel obligated to complete everything to perfection at the home front. In the case of working mothers, the additional demands of job responsibilities compound the day. It has been proven that working mothers are under stress due to these dual roles of homemaker and office employee (J.Williams, 1999). Such stresses ...

Effects of working mothers on their relationships

Currently, the world is experiencing major economic challenges. Consequently, everyone is forced to work extra hard to make ends meet. This aspect makes people spend more time at their places of work than with their family members. Dummet P. et al. (2014) alludes that intimate relationships are on the decline in the modern society. Furthermore, psychologists explicate that busy lives today makes it difficult to maintain relationships in the society Dummet P. et al. (2014). Traditionally, the society regarded mothers as the weaker gender intellectually and expected them to stay at home and take care of their families. However, ...

Retaining Careers Contribute to Child Well-Being and Future

Introduction The purpose of this literature review is to assess various researches into the positive impacts of being a working mother, and to assess whether or not working mothers have positive impacts on their children’s well-being and future when compared to stay-at-home mothers. Evidence suggests that working mothers can serve as good role models and caregivers for their children in comparison to mothers who stay-at-home with their children (Figes 1) (Heinrich 122) (Sherman 1). The labor participation rate of mothers with underage children was almost 70 percent in 2013 (“Latest Annual Data”). These statistics suggest the importance and ...

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A workplace require many things be it employee perks or flexible working hours, work-life balance programs or health insurances, either Onsite health benefits or employee development, great atmosphere to work with or employee rewards, all of these if provided to the employees’ they would remain sincere and motivated towards their work. This research paper seeks to know whether Marriot International Fulfills all the employees’ wants and demands for the place they would like to work at. The research has concluded that Marriott promises and has proved to be the best place the employees’ would want to work at.

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Redefining motherhood

Introduction The economy and the cost of living change the perspective of parenting in general and mothering in particular. With a high demand for basic needs such as education, mothers are increasingly flooding the job market to earn a living and supply their children's needs. This action leads to high rates of single-parent families or inadequate interaction between the mother and her family. The traditional form of nuclear family consisting a working man as the sole bread-winner and the wife as a full-time home-maker is on the decline in most urban households (Garey, 1993). In order to match the new standards and ...

The way social norms change and how well people adjust to these changes has always been fascinating. Growing up as a child whose mother was working, I have always come faced with viewpoints that I felt lonely and abandoned, because, they said, I lacked maternal affection. I never understood why affection was measured by the hours a mother spends with her child, because I was raised with much love and nurture, even though I did not see my mother as much as other children that had their mothers at home. I felt resistant to the concept that staying at home mothers ...

Role Strain as a Common Problem for Working Mothers in Singapore and the Impact Singapore’s Government Paid Pro-Family Leave Schemes has on the Sociological Phenomenon of Role Strain (Student’s Full Name) Role Strain as a Common Problem for Working Mothers in Singapore and the Impact Singapore’s Government Paid Pro-Family Leave Schemes has on the Sociological Phenomenon of Role Strain Dictionary.com , which is based on the Random House Dictionary describes role strain as “the stress or strain” experienced by a person when “incompatible behavior, expectations, or obligations are associated with a single role” (n.d., par. 1). According to ...

The latter part of the 1960s brought many changes in the roles of women in the homes. The changes offset a number of issues that are positive and negative. Male advocates against these changes opine that the changes led to the breakdown in the family structure and values. But, how can the increase in financial assistance in the family lead to disaster? The responses vary as many critics believe that the family is the center of the values that individuals learn and present in the society. In fact, some critics go as far as to suggest that a woman’s role ...

Introduction

In the day of technological revolution when technology has enabled people to bring work home, the fine line between work and personal life has increasingly diminished. Highly sophisticated and easily affordable technologies "have made it more feasible for employees to keep contact with work" through emails, mobile phones and computers that transcend the physical boundaries of their workplace (Olson-Buchanan and Boswell, 2007). Workaholic employees who deem their professional growth as an important part of their identities are more prone to make use of these communication technologies by responding to work related emails or voice mails even after work-hours or ...

ID Number 1. What is your chosen topic, and how did you come across it? Why is it interesting to you? What do you personally hope to gain or accomplish by writing about this topic? My chosen topic concerns “How Society Feels about Stay At Home Dads”. This is very interesting because despite the fact that there is still a small group of stay-at-home fathers, the number has continued to grow rapidly in the United States. In the data gathered by the Census Bureau, the percentage of stay-at-home dads has increased by 1.8% from 2001 to 2011. Over ...

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Literature Review 3

Theoretical framework of child development, 4 1. Psycho Analytic theories : 4 2. Ericson’s Psychological theory; 5 3. Cognitive theory: 6 i. Sensory motor stage:. 6 ii. Pre-operational stage: 7 iii. Concrete operational stage: 7 iv. Vygotsky socio-cultural cognitive theory: 7

Parenting styles and their influence Child Care and Development 7

1. Authoritarian; 8 2. Homeisle; 8

Purpose of Study 8

Refined Research question 9 Refined Hypothesis & Variables 9 Variables and Definitions; 10 Measurements 10 Target Population, Sampling Method and Sampling frame; 11 Data Collection & Analysis Technique 12 Instrument for data analysis; 15 Potential ...

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Individual approaches in social ecological health promotion programs involve focusing on individual based change for health promotion. It focuses on providing individuals with information that will help them in prevention mechanisms for diseases. It also involves instilling the belief that treatment interventions will improve the health of a sick individual (Schneider, 2011). This paper will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of using individual approaches in the larger context of social ecological health promotion programs. There are a number of benefits associated with individual approaches in social ecological health promotion programs. To begin with, individual approaches promote the uptake of health ...

The ability to support families with children is of great concern for many countries in the world. Many studies on family policy regimens have focused on the effect of women equality; and found that dual – earner regimens, wherein the husband and wife both work and care for the child have been the most contributive to promoting women in the work place (Engster & Stensöta, 2011). Sweden is considered one of the most “women – friendly” countries in the world (Nyberg, 2000). It supports not only women with children in committed relationships, but also single women, by providing them a high quality ...

The Effect of Working Mothers on the Cognitive Development of Infants 0-3 years of age.

Prospectus: The Effect of Working Mothers on the Cognitive Development of Infants 0-3 years of age. Problem statement According to Ruhm (2010), a child’s first three years of life are of significant importance. Research has indicated early influences play a key role in brain development. This implies that, for an infant/child, these formative years are likely to have great significance on how the infant/child develops learning skills, emotional security, and self-esteem. In addition, O’Reilly (2012) argued that implications of maternal absence have generated widespread controversy and debate in recent years. These researches conform to Becker’s theory ...

Derailing Mommy Track Using the

Kelso-Adler Theory of Economic Justice Abstract The Glass Ceiling was an analogy used to describe invisible barriers that exist in the career progression paths of women and minorities. This was further reinterpreted as a Mommy Track – an image which focused particularly on maternity and the nature of women’s societal and cultural roles. The paper uses the Kelso-Adler theory of economic justice to arrive at a series of guidelines which can be used to break the mommy track attitude and thus lead to a more harmonious workplace situation. In doing so, the arms of economic justice- participative and distributive are ...

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics today more than 59% of women are either employed or are currently searching for employment (Parker, 2009). Moreover, the proportion of married-mothers, who are employed, has significantly increased since the mid-1980s. Although most women do not want to return to the traditional division of family roles and believe that both parents should contribute to the family budget, the argument about the employment of women, and mothers in particular, remains quite controversial (Cusworth, 2009).

The biggest advantage of both parents working is surely an increase in the household income. This fact not ...

How Mother’s Manage Their Family’s Economic and Social Well-Being

The role of the Canadian women in the family has evolved throughout the years. Women now are neither strictly just confined at home nor are families strictly consisting of a mother and father who are bound by marriage. With the many changes in the society and in the environment came changes in women’s role and in the perception of women. The modern Canadian family has started to veer away from the traditional model where the husband is responsible for working to financially support the family while the wife stays at home to take care of the household chores, ...

Is Paternity Leave Reasonable?

Maternity leave for women is acceptable throughout the world and is enforced through the respective labor laws of every country. The significance of maternity leave is realized due to the responsibility of women towards their newborns and the vitality of mother’s presence for the survival and care of infants. With the importance of maternal care being realized at universal level, the significance of paternal care for the infant is still under discussion and receives little support from corporate and industries. Though several studies have established that father’s care is also vital for an infant, the concept of ...