Hundreds of years of sexist ideas still live on. These days when women and men are considered equal, and still there are the same misconceptions about that. The same things that cause the jokes about women in the kitchen and raising children, the things that women fought against, still continue to haunt the women of today.
I have noticed that in every scenario that I can come up with to find out whether the mother could get out of the whole responsibility of how a child behaves. I will share these scenarios with you, but there is nothing. From the days when women were forced to stay home and raise the kids clean and cook we still get flack about whether or not we have done a good job whether we are with the child or not.
If a mother is the working parent and the father is the stay at home parent the mother working 12 hour days, six days a week, the mother is at fault. If the mother and father work a steady 9-5 five days a week, the mother is at fault. If the mother is a stay at home and tries her best and the other parent isn’t contributing on the parental obligations the way that they should, that’s the mothers fault.
In heavy industries women still don’t get paid as much as what the men make. Even in the professional world women are still not paid in equal. So when we talk of equality, I really wonder who really believes that at this point that men and women are equal. The older generations have still been living by the fact that women are only good at home and that the way that the children act is a reflection of the parenting that the mother uses. In any case, there really is no equality.
