I can bet I'm not the only mother in the world who is getting sick of all the negative press there is surrounding working mothers and their rights. The latest article I read had Tessa Jowell suggesting that fathers help out more around the home to make it easier for mothers to get out there and work, accompanied by Nicola Horlick grinning with her six children smiling sweetly around her showing how easy it is. If only life was that simple!
Since going back to work I have experienced incredible back stabbing and blatant descrimination, bending the employment law to the limit. The worse thing about it has been the fact that the main culprits for treating me this way have been working mothers. It seems to be a case of "why should you have it easy when I didn't."
It would appear to be a successful business woman you have to shut your kids up in a cupboard and just pretend like you don't have any! How ridiculous. Isn't it about time we started working in a more productive manner?
I've set up a blog - not very impressive, but what I hope to achieve is a connection with other mothers out there who have had bad experiences and changed them round to a positive end. I am sure that there are thousands of women out there who after having children have gone on to setting themselves up in employment and running their own businesses from home. We have valuable advice we can give each other that goes beyond simply recommending a good nanny agency. I honestly believe that working mothers are a wasted resource and that with the right backing could be a valuable addition to the work force.
It would be great to hear from you because I think there is real value in creating a movement that helps us all support each other - a new era in networking, instead this time it's not old boys, it will be mothers - a far stronger force to be reckoned with.
If you are interested you can see my blog on mums4work.blog.com/ or answer this conversation. Thanks for listening to my rant.