Question

Suppose that you know several women who earn lower salaries than comparable men in the same company, yet they don’t seem very upset by the discrepancy. How would you explain why they are not angry? What similar process operates when a woman considers the gap in the amount of housework and child care that she and her husband perform?

Imagine that you are a 25-year-old woman and that you have decided to return to your former job after the birth of your first baby. Suppose that a neighbor tells you that your child will probably develop psychological problems if you work outside the home. Cite evidence to defend your decision.

Answer 1

Several women who earn lower salaries than comparable men in the same company, yet they don’t seem very upset by the discrepancy. They don't even get angry because they have habitual for this behaviour.

From the starting (childhood), the society or the environment always shows the differences between girl and boy. So they don't think that this is wrong happening with them. Even internally they but they also know the rules orf the society. So they didn't react on this differenciation.

When a woman considers the gap in the amount of housework and child care that she and her husband perform. She know the truth of the society. After the birth of the baby, many women even resign for their work for the care of child. But men don't consider that it is also his duty to halp her in some household work. But women know that the care of the child is her duty because from the childhood, this is what they learn. Baby is the responsibility of body, but society differenciate some work according to gender.

If I am a 25-year-old woman and I have decided to return to my former job after the birth of my first baby. And a neighbor tells me that my child will probably develop psychological problems if I work outside the home. So, first of all, baby is the responsibility of both of the parent. And child need both of us. So, if me and my husband want to handle this situation together to divide some work, then it become easy task. And I prefer the child's grandparents take care the child in my absence. I didn't prefer outsider caretaker. So, I can easily go to my work. And after the work, I always spend time with my baby.