Blog 35

Really, just coming out now with a recommendation to promote work and family balance? Oh right, a while ago women were stay at home mothers, not needing these suggestions. As Americans, we are placing high value on money making, and not the richness of family. It is crazy to think that we have been neglecting our children so much that they are making these recommendations. There has always been an enqual work issue when it comes to women, most of the time they are children s care givers. The suggestions were, "These care giving responsibilities are not distributed evenly across the working population. As the EEOC's best practices document notes, the care of children and other dependents is disproportionately provided by women, and even more disproportionately by women of color. Men's role in parenting and other caregiving has increased, but is still vastly outweighed by women's. At the same time, women's workforce participation has dramatically increased, so that women account today for 46 percent of the workforce, and women's earnings are increasingly important".
So women are making up 46% and still now receiving equal pay, and they are also taking care of the children, with out a lot of help. Can we pay women equally please? Or maybe we can come up with a free child care system that help with the labor load women are experiencing. Or the fathers of the family need to step up and help balance the scales. And now there are more layoffs happening to men, women are strained more than ever, but if the father is home out of work, maybe they can watch children, and help balance out the scales.