An edition of The Housewife Dilemma (1988)

The Housewife Dilemma

Positive Perspectives for Reluctant Homemakers

The Housewife Dilemma
Norma T. Bauer, Norma T. Bauer
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An edition of The Housewife Dilemma (1988)

The Housewife Dilemma

Positive Perspectives for Reluctant Homemakers

Pursue a career or become a stay-at-home mom during the childrearing years? There's no good answer. It's a choice between giving up on motherhood, feeling like you're abandoning your children during their formative years, or giving up a career and long-term effects on earning power. In humorously-illustrated chapters, the author describes the challenges of full-time homemaking and multiple reasons why many otherwise career-minded women become reluctant homemakers. She points out that homemaking may be a viable choice for someone in a secure partnership with a reliable breadwinner, but it can be extremely challenging, frustrating, and isolating for those who'd rather be out in the workplace, earning their own living and interacting with adults more than children, because children tend to be messy, loud, and demanding at times.

In 1989, before viable options for telecommuting became viable, she prophetically explained the value of family-friendly employment options (reduced standard work week, shared jobs, paired jobs, etc.) and the benefits to employers as well as an acceptable alternative to unreliable child care.

The sections on historical development of the role at the onset of Industrial Revolution, as well as the chapter on how "Jesus was a feminist, too!" are particular mind-changers about the subject.

Existing systems that cause women to become "reluctant homemakers" denigrates the role for all who are free to enthusiastically choose it. Thankfully, as the human race continues to evolve, more and more men are insisting on being real interactive parents to their children, not merely paychecks, for the good of all.

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Norma T Bauer
Language
English
Pages
100

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The Housewife Dilemma: Positive Perspectives for Reluctant Homemakers
June 1989, Norma T Bauer
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The Housewife Dilemma
1989, Self-published
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Hardcover
Number of pages
100

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OL11695033M
ISBN 10
0962434000
ISBN 13
9780962434006

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