As I was reading chapter 10, I read about the number of mothers with children, who they have difficult time to work outside of their home and keep their jobs. The stereotype of women as a mother has a literal form. Women employees who have or plan to have children are often perceived as less serious professionals than men or women who are not mothers. My previous job in the Untied Nation my employer asked me in my interview how soon I was planning to have children. I said in couple of years, after that I asked why he has to ask such a question, he said we don’t prefer women who have children, because they take many days off when their children are sick or have school activity and that will effect the work and her performance. In addition, mother focuses more on mothering than working. Therefore, it is illegal to stereotype women in work places as mothers or to act toward them in ways that reflect the belief that work and motherhood are incompatible. The assumption that serious careers and full time job reflects social relationship of previous eras in which men were professionals and had stay at home wives to care for the home and children. Today, most women and men work outside of the home, which make it difficult to start families and raise children. When they start families usually, the women’s job is the one that has to suffer not the man’s. When couples decide to have children both of them have to share the responsibility of taking care of those children.
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You do know that you could have sued this interviewer right? He violated federal law by asking you that question. By law, they must ask questions that are job related and could be asked to all applicants. Questions on race, gender and age unless specficially related to the tasks of the job (and almost all aren't) can be asked but only if they relate directly to the job. You were the winner at that interview..if he is asking you that kind of illegal sexist question now, what do you think that your work life would have been like??
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