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WOMEN AS WORKING MUMS
Women make unique contributions to families and to our societies.Often times, these contributions arise from conflict of roles as a mother, wife, corporate worker et cetera.Every mum is a working mum in all sense of life. Three types of working mums have been identified. These are:
-Work-outside-the-home mums, otherwise known as corporate mums.They work to earn some money to pay the bills.The stereotype here is that, corporate mums must be carrier-driven overachievers who need to work to feed their insatiable egos.They are sometimes, interested in climbing the corporate ladder than taking care of their first priority- their children.Any offence in that?May be the society wrongly believe corporate mums kids will end up juvenile delinquents because mum is not home to guide her little demons 24 hours a day.

-Work-at-home mums are loved by everyone for selfish reasons of bringing home some needed cash while still available to do the school run, help with homework, and bake pancakes for everyboby.This is a position that gets no respect because she is not officially at an office therefore, people still assume a work-at-home mum is available for afternoon babysitting. The doorbell and phone ring, from people who insist on borrowing her working time with idle chat.
-Unemployed mums are full time house wife who does not give a financial contribution helping her hard-working husband bring home a dual-wage!The judgement is that, any woman who chooses to stay home and "just" be a wife and mother must be a lazy, good-for-nothing underachiever who are usually patronised with the question,"so you do not work?Then what do you do all day?"People who posed the question surely have no clue just how busy a full time mum really is, nor are they aware that stay home mums work real hard.
The amazing thing about the three groups is that, it is sister women themselves who cast stones at each other. Why must they pull one another down to feel justified in their life choices?
It is time that mums stop being each other's worst enemies and start being each other's best friends.Why do the negative comments bug them so much?Are they that insecure about their own decisions,whatever they may be? In a perfect world, all mums would pull together to help one another out. They should make an heroic attempt at a truce with themselves by way of compassionate understanding. Then, l believe the world would be a better, if not near perfect, place to live in

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