To ask your views :- Is being a mum a job.

[ICanSeeTheSun]

I can not decide if being a mum is a job.

I do see this a lot on Facebook, under employment is full time mummy.

Aibu to think if a mum is a job I want my employment rights, such as 21 day holiday.

As thread illustrates everyone does parenting to different standard,own preference
A job is the imposition of standards,an external expectation of competency,scrutiny
Housewifery is undertaking tasks to own standard.its not a job.at all

Silly - I presume you are talking about both parents working. Its work ie paid jobs which enable one parent to stay at home. Whether you measure the value of jobs in terms of material goods , basic necessities, life enrichment or enabling one parent to stay at home there is no such thing as a valueless job. Some of us even manage to have a job AND raise amazing children.

I have no job at the moment and am raising fairly average children.

Being a mother isn't a job it's a state of being. However, childcare is a job - and if you didn't do it, you would have to pay someone to do it for you. Likewise, cleaning and housework.
Usually, women who look after their own children in the home are also doing most (if not all) of the cleaning, cooking, shopping etc. Those would all be 'jobs' if someone outside the family was being paid to do them.

No.A housewife undertakes domestic tasks.done to own time,standard.not a job
Same tasks if Externally undertaken there is an expected standard,time frame of completion
Me loading the washing machine isn't a job,it's a task.

The tasks,the dynamics and rapport in a family are worthwhile,they're not a job though
One cannot equate the tasks and emotional input of raising family to job.not comparable
Folk over simplify this.they argue that cm watches kids,it's employed.so watching own kid is same as cm

Job is colloquialism for employment,doing your own chores isn't employment
Semantics about what the chores,jobs are called doesn't render motherhood a job
Motherhood isn't a job

And what is your point exactly?

No it doesn't matter imo.

Work or don't work. A happy family matters.

You've had to veer off a a big auld tangent to try make this vaguely significant
Frankly if a mother wants to award herself JD and title MD of the Persil tabs,good for her
Still doesn't make being a mum a job

I'm not the lone voice saying motherhood is not employment.no one class it so
govt doesn't motherhood = employment.social think tanks don't?it's irrefutable
If it were employment it'd be subject to regulation,inspection,and liable for tax and NI

I fear the only blue face,is yours as you vigorously protest motherhood is a job

It's a lifestyle choice. Not a job.

Census doesn't record motherhood as job.its not a job.theres no societal recognition of it as job
Quite simply if one were to persist and define self as employed,because mother.they'd be v deluded
Socially,and politically motherhood isn't regarded as employment.objective fact

Actually, I agree. If some people want to call it a job, it doesn't really matter. I don't agree with them, but it really isn't that important...

It's not a job when you can snack/sleep/watch tv when you feel like it!

It matters because people have different value systems. If you believe that what you are doing as a ft sahm is worthwhile, and everyone else in the country values ft 'employment', then of course you are going to equate it to the same thing - after all, you spend as many hours doing it, (actually more) and it is as hard (or you perceive it is), and as 'valuable', as what people are doing that are paid for their roles....

Is being a dad a job?

I hate this continued emphasis on women though. Can we not just ask 'is being a parent a job?' Interestingly, I suspect even more people would say 'no' to that. Which begs the question why do some people believe it is a suitable substitution for employment for a woman, but not a man... (Pure conjecture, obv.)

I work ft btw, and have never referred to my periods as a sahm as a 'job', despite officially being a carer in the eyes of the govt for much of them.