WGSS 3998 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Pew Research Center, Natalism, Working Mother
20 Oct 2020
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We love them and celebrate them with flowers and breakfast in bed on mother"s day. However, underlying the positive images of mothers is an ideology of motherhood that has been termed the motherhood mystique. Motherhood is the ultimate fulfillment of a woman. It is a natural and necessary experience for all women. Those who do not want to mother are psychologically disturbed and those who want to but cannot are fundamentally deprived. Women are instinctively good at caregiving and should be responsible for infants, children, elderly parents, home, and their husband. Good mothers enjoy this kind of work; a woman who doesn"t is maladjusted or poorly organized. A mother has infinite patience and the willingness to sacrifice herself to her children. If she does not put her own needs last, she is an inadequate mother. A woman"s intense, full-time devotion to mothering is best for her children. Women who work are inferior mothers (johnston-robledo, 2000).
