Women should not work outside the home.

[oneighty]

Boy I think that is a great idea.

Working mothers entering into the world of men must be outlawed. Here I agree with some religious folk whom I guess believe this to be a great idea.

If women would just say no to working outside the home there would be more jobs for men. Many more jobs for men I am thinking. In fact men could pick and chose their preferred employment and they could ask for and receive enough income to support their stay at home mothers/wives.

I am sure the children of such mothers would love the extra nurturing of body and soul given from the loving heart and hands of their stay at home mother. They would have help with school work and book learning from a mother well rested and able to devote plenty of time and energy just being a mother and a teacher.

Perhaps we could persuade all working women to stay home from work for a month or two. We could call it a sit down strike to free woman from the task of two jobs.

Why I bet if working women would just say "Hell no we won't go to work." Just for a week even it would attract great attention. They could form a stay at home 'union'.

Congress might even be prompted to pass a law against stay at home women and mothers.

I bet.

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SARCASM FOLKS REALLY!

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[silverlib]

1. Nor should we work inside the home. (eom)

[oneighty]

13. That's right. My point

Women should just say "No more I am not taking it anymore." Call a nation wide strike as the French workers do.

I think there is a law against that in the free country of the US of A?

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[woo me with science]

20. LOL! I agree! nt

[Zenlitened]

2. *dons flameproof suit*

Any chance there's a </sarcasm> floating around there somewhere? :)

[oneighty]

10. Just a little

Lets face it without women out working their butts off out of the home and also in the home this country would fail. We have Christians and others talking out of both sides of their crooked mouths on this subject.


Of course women have to work because in many cases they have to in order to survive even when married.

It is not fair.

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[Zenlitened]

16. I agree that families are overworked. But I'd rather see...

... a society where women AND men have options when it comes to balancing work and home or personal life.

[Jade Fox]

3. That was tried. It was called the 1950's.....

Why not reverse it? Men should not work outside the home, and all women
should get paid enough to support them and the children.

Makes as much sense as your idea.

[Southpaw Bookworm]

11. Let's keep in mind

That it was mainly middle- and upper-class white women who didn't work in the 1950s. Poor women and women of color have ALWAYS worked outside the home, but for some wacky reason aren't included when we're talking about perky housewives baking cookies. Guess their experience doesn't count for shit. For many women, including my grandmother and great-grandmother, that income from the mother's outside-the-home job (whether it was cleaning houses and churches, cooking in a restaurant, or raising othre people's children) was vital to the survival of the family.

For more info, including about all the read get thee some Stephanie Coontz.

[Jade Fox]

12. Excellent points....

Pardon me for forgetting my usuallyl good class conciousness...:)

[oneighty]

15. Yes and working slave wages

because competition for those thankless jobs was keen.

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[demnan]

4. What about us single women?

Personally I'm the only one paying the mortgage here.

Oh, I know! We should have arranged marriages and if the husband dies just throw the woman on the burning pyre and call it that.

[mutus_frutex]

6. What, you left the house of your parents??

Are you a loose woman, by any chance? Or **GASP** a lesbian??

:-)

[oneighty]

18. No but perhaps

you could join the "Working Women's Union" for the good of all working women.

BTY I am member of NOW, at least I send them a little money now and then

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[crispini]

5. Ooo boy.....

(gets out the popcorn).

[Liberal Veteran]

7. Only the ugly ones should work outside the home.

Preferably in respectable positions like nursing and teaching. But we shouldn't have spinsters starving.

(sarcasm)

[DrWeird]

8. There's a reason Jesus invented nunneries.

I'd hate to have to work with ugly women.

[lapislzi]

17. Unmarriageable women should go into "service"

where they can be useful members of society attending to the needs of the wealthy.

[wryter2000]

9. I have another idea

Why don't men do half of the housework? That would spare women from doing two jobs.

[oneighty]

14. There is that too.

I am all for it.

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[PROGRESSIVE1]

19. :eyes:

:eyes:

[Canuckistanian]

21. Damn those feminists!

They're FORCING women to have careers, abortions and fight in combat units!
Boy, I wish WE were in power, we'd show them how to run things.

[txaslftist]

22. Haven't been getting a lot of hits on your threads? know the feelin

[gollygee]

23. As a stay-at-home mom I have an opinion about this

In an ideal world, families would be able to have a parent stay home if they wanted. Families would be able to survive on one salary.

But, no woman or man should ever feel compelled to stay home. Anyone who has aspirations outside the home should follow those dreams.

I stay at home for a lot of reasons. One is that my husband works long hours and doesn't really do anything around the house. He used to have a less demanding job and he did quite a bit of housework and cooking, but those days have been gone for a long time. So long as I'm doing everything at home and we can afford it, I'm not getting a second job somewhere else.

[wryter2000]

24. Spt on, Gollygee

There's no question that the best arrangement is to have one person at home with the children. But that person shouldn't be assigned on the basis of sex. It should be the person who wants that job.

And we must always respect the fact that most of us don't have a choice about whether or not we work for pay.

[gollygee]

25. The only difference is breastfeeding

Breastfeeding straight from the source is a lot easier than pumping and feeding.

Otherwise, no it shouldn't matter whether it's a man or a woman.

And yes, most people unfortunately don't have the option.

[superconnected]

26. I've had this argument with boyfriends

if all women went home from work right now, over 50% of the jobs would be left undone.

the unemployed - what ever it is right now, would shrink to half, and that half - lets say 5% would have to do the work of the 50% of women that left.

The country would fall to pieces and the economy would sink.

Men who believe they can't find a job because of women, are men who can't compete with women. Its the administrations fault they can't find a job - oh, and their own if they can't compete.