To ask why women are expected to do everything?

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HolyGuacamole28 · 12/02/2024 23:33

I read a depressing article in the Economist today ‘How Motherhood affects careers’ and it stated how more and more women are not progressing as they should after having children. And SAHP is on the rise as more people opt out of a system doomed to failure. I just don’t understand how mothers are physically supposed to work full time in a career/senior role (I do), manage a household (I have a 4 year old, 2 year old and a husband, also FT) that includes washing, cleaning, cooking etc and do activities with the kids, keep fit and see friends. Is this what society expects? Who is supposed to do the household role if both adults work full time? And why do we need two incomes just to survive? (COL is so painful re mortgages, childcare, energy, food). Rant over, just can’t see how society has evolved, it’s just put more on our shoulders. I’m personally at breaking point.

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Mumoftwo1312 · 12/02/2024 23:42

manage a household (I have a 4 year old, 2 year old and a husband

You have phrased this as if your dh is another child to manage.

Your dh should be managing the household alongside you

BIWI · 12/02/2024 23:38

What is depressing is reading so many threads on Mumsnet where women take on all these roles without seeming to even consider that their male partners might be doing some of it.

Sometimes women are their own worst enemies.

lljkk · 12/02/2024 23:36

Cleaners, my mother had a cleaner. So does everyone in my parents' social circle (1970s). My mom had a nanny, too, when I was little. Later a life-in housekeeper for about 8 years.

But not because she was a woman. The blokes like having cleaners, too.

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