Do career women get more kudos than part-timers/sahms?

[Mcemmabell]

I don't know if it's just my experience, but I feel like I hear a rhetoric day to day where the women I know who are very career focused (demanding full time work, considered "high flying") get kudos and praise from other women. I've recently heard relatives and friends talking with admiration about how dedicated and hard working women in these positions are. But women who work part time or are sahms, I don't hear them getting any praise for the hours they put into childcare and keeping house. Or the sacrifices they make for their children.

Is this just part of the sexist discourse that diminishes the value of any traditional female activity? I would love to hear someone say "Oh, Jean works so hard to take care of her kids." But I never do.

Note: I take the feminist attitude that women should be supported to do whichever of these they want. No one is better than anyone else because they work full time out of the house or because they take care of their kids full time in the house.

Anyway, am I imagining things or is looking after your own children (as a mother) still an undervalued activity that gets very little recognition from the outside world?

@Tittyfilarious81 that's great, I'm so glad to hear that. So many women get shafted. We see those posts day in and day out on here.

@Queenconsult

“Same applies to all menial jobs”.

Do you understand how unpleasant you are?
I had hoped that we’d all learned during the past few years just how crucial “menial” workers are to society, they are what keeps it running.
Your attitude is shameful.

probably get stick for this but looking after your children is a duty and a privilege. Whether you work or not you still have to keep your house and look after your children. I have 2 under 3 and I am dreading going back to work, working with young children is HARD. Staying at home is, I’m sorry but it’s not hard, I mean it’s not easy but life’s not easy for anyone. Everyone is cooking and cleaning and looking after their children, I don’t think we should be praised for choosing to have children and looking after them that’s the basic requirements of being human. Working while having children is very difficult, my mental health was horrendous when working with one young child and I’m about to go back to work with a toddler and a baby at home. It’s a hell of a lot harder than staying at home in my opinion. I certainly don’t look for praise for being at home with my kids, but for being a hard working mum both at home and at work, that is commendable. Not everyone has the privilege to stay at home.

They wouldn’t! I don’t think we’re making the same point.

I work full time (not a ‘career’, but a decently paid good job at least for the area) and I don’t get kudos from most women. Mainly sympathy and asked if I miss DD 🙄

FYI @Villagegirl6 is all over threads this morning with goady, misogynistic posts so best to ignore until MN delete the posts and ban the (boring AF) user.