{"id":740,"date":"2015-06-08T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/annelitwin.com\/?p=740"},"modified":"2015-06-08T09:00:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T13:00:23","slug":"good-news-for-working-mothers-busting-through-another-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/blog-posts\/good-news-for-working-mothers-busting-through-another-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News for Working Mothers: Busting through Another Myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[There is good news for working mothers\u2014and it\u2019s really good! Women often feel pressured to conform to the \u201cgood mother\u201d stereotype in our society, which says we are selfish and bad mothers if we are employed outside the home. Many women have no choice about working full time because they must do so to support their families. Nonetheless, many studies, including research published in the <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/jasp.2002.32.issue-10\/issuetoc\"><em>Journal of Applied Social Psychology<\/em><\/a>, show that the more satisfied a woman is with her employment, or with having a career, the more harshly she is judged by society as a \u201cbad mother.\u201d The underlying assumption of this stereotype seems to be that children will be stunted in their development, or otherwise harmed, if their mother is not home when they are young. Many women report feeling guilty about working when they have children at home, even when they have no choice, because of this stereotype and the societal pressure it represents.\nA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/business\/2015\/05\/18\/harvard-business-school-launches-gender-initiative\/aFHBH9BhUoRoYrMIH4ETeK\/story.html\">new study by Kathleen McGinn<\/a> of Harvard busts a big hole in this myth of the good mother. McGinn polled 50,000 adults in 25 nations and found that \u201cwomen with working mothers earned more and had more powerful jobs than adult daughters whose mothers stayed home when their children were young.\u201d She found that in the United States, \u201cwomen with working mothers earned 23 percent more than women whose mothers did not work\u201d outside of the home.\nThe good news, then, is that rather than harming their children, working mothers are providing a positive role model to their daughters. Working mothers can also be positive role models for sons, though in a different way. While McGinn\u2019s research showed that having a working mother did not have an impact on men\u2019s earnings, men in the United States who had working mothers \u201cspent almost twice as much time on family and child-care tasks as those from more traditional families.\u201d These men are providing positive role models to both sons and daughters about being equitable partners in the home.\nThis is all good news!]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[81,99,257,326,434,551,612,631,634],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-posts","tag-career","tag-children","tag-good-news","tag-kathleen-mcginn","tag-parenting","tag-stereotypes","tag-women","tag-working-mothers","tag-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}