working mothers
Abstract
This paper examines the benefits and the negatives of the mother who works either due to financial need or her own desire to do so. Such concerns are whether or not having a working mother negatively affects the children emotionally and/or academically. This paper will explore how maternal employment affects of the child as well as the mother.
For many new mothers the decision to return to work is a difficult one. For some the decision may be as simple as they just have to, whether they are a single parent supporting the entire household or due to economic reasons beyond their control, both partners have to work to support the household. For other mothers, it is a different decision entirely; they want to return to work. For whatever reason a mother chooses to return to work this personal decision finds many mothers scrutinized.
The amount of mothers working outside of the home has grown to over 50% compared to 30% of women working in the 1970’s according to the American Academy of Pediatrics (1999). In fact, the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that there are 35.5 million women with children under the age of 18 in America, more importantly, 24.1 million of those women work outside of the home (Tong et al., 2009).
With this substantial increase many experts are questioning the impact it has on the child. Studies have been done on everything from the emotional, academic, physical impacts of a working mother on her child as well as how the stress of a working mother can also have effect development. My aim of this project is to research on working mothers- the advantages, disadvantages, problems and reasons behind their decision to work
Inorder to do this. I have conducted a survey by handing out a questionnaire of 17 questions to 25 working mothers . I Have tried covering the different fields in which women work, to give my project a broader outlook and to be able to get a more accurate analysis.
This paper examines the benefits and the negatives of the mother who works either due to financial need or her own desire to do so. Such concerns are whether or not having a working mother negatively affects the children emotionally and/or academically. This paper will explore how maternal employment affects of the child as well as the mother.
For many new mothers the decision to return to work is a difficult one. For some the decision may be as simple as they just have to, whether they are a single parent supporting the entire household or due to economic reasons beyond their control, both partners have to work to support the household. For other mothers, it is a different decision entirely; they want to return to work. For whatever reason a mother chooses to return to work this personal decision finds many mothers scrutinized.
The amount of mothers working outside of the home has grown to over 50% compared to 30% of women working in the 1970’s according to the American Academy of Pediatrics (1999). In fact, the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that there are 35.5 million women with children under the age of 18 in America, more importantly, 24.1 million of those women work outside of the home (Tong et al., 2009).
With this substantial increase many experts are questioning the impact it has on the child. Studies have been done on everything from the emotional, academic, physical impacts of a working mother on her child as well as how the stress of a working mother can also have effect development. My aim of this project is to research on working mothers- the advantages, disadvantages, problems and reasons behind their decision to work
Inorder to do this. I have conducted a survey by handing out a questionnaire of 17 questions to 25 working mothers . I Have tried covering the different fields in which women work, to give my project a broader outlook and to be able to get a more accurate analysis.
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