Free translation of a report published in Época magazine, nº 474, on July 18th 2007 – Globo (Brazil)
Why mothers want to leave their jobs to stay with their children
Celso Masson, Martha Mendonça e Solange Azevedo
Advantages of staying home, according to the report:
| For the mother | For the family | Considerations about the labor market |
| She doesn’t feel guilt | There is more dedication to the family | More than half of women want to leave their jobs (Brazilian Survey – Ibope 2006) |
| The mother who stays home takes care of the children; the mother who has a job doesn’t look after both work and children | More time with kids leads to a true connection between them and the mother; it takes down the “quality time” concept once and for all | 5,6 million of American women left their jobs in 2005 |
| Staying home is a symbol of status | Mothers who don’t pick the children up at school and don’t meet the kids’ friends are cruel | Mothers have the option to work at home, without a strict schedule |
| She doesn’t sacrifice her personal life | Children are not “outsourced” | Even if the work at home isn’t paid, it corresponds to 60% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the USA |
| She doesn’t suffer with competition | The mother is always at home; she doesn’t arrive after “the children are sleeping” | Women that have a job earn 30% less than men |
| She doesn’t suffer from work-related stress | The informality of the female labor is bigger | |
| There is intelligent life among “entrance-school-mothers” | The female work is depreciated, because the employers think that mothers concentrate less and produce less | |
| She has more time | Women that carry on with their careers find they are imprisoned inside a management system built for men | |
| Working women in part-time jobs are not taken seriously and lose opportunities |
Advantages for the husband were not listed.
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You can also see:
Why mothers want to leave their jobs to stay with their children – one side
Why mothers want to leave their jobs to stay with their children – Analysis
Why mothers want to leave their jobs to stay with their children – Marusia speaks
This post in Portuguese: Por que as mães estão deixando o emprego para ficar com os filhos – outro lado
