Amidst the discussion of the still-not-up-to-par status of the female
equality in the corporate world, society has left off a very huge, but
under-prioritized element of our society: the children. Women who want
it all, money, career, power, etc that comes only with a corporate
position is the socially accepted goal....but really what about these
children? These youngsters are stuck in childcare, with nannies, or wherever
with little or no really relationship with their parents, especially
their mother.
A corporate life is not all that it is cracked up to
being when it comes to the deathbed of a mother who spent her entire
life fighting a man on the ladder rung for the golden ring of success
according to corporate society.
Feminism has completely come undone when it comes to recognizing and
utilizing the strength, power, and influence of a woman in the world.
No, her strength doesn't measure up in the corporate world to what she
can do for a child frightened of the dark. No, her power is not as
prominent to her co-workers/peers as it is to a misbehaving child or insecure teen, and no, her
influence is not as important and long-lasting as with the young
children in their care. The presence of the mother in the home raising
the next generation of our world cannot be properly replaced by daycare
workers at minimum wage, nannies who are book-trained, or exclusive schools.
Maybe it isn't wise for us to focus so hard on a golden ring that
maybe...really isn't meant to be ours in the first place. Maybe what we
should be realizing is that the greatest and most important,
influential and powerful position a woman could hold is one a man can
only watch from the outside due to his lack of that feminine strength
and determination and patience that only a woman has. Maybe, just maybe
we have a purpose far more crucial in our world today, since we can
easily turn around and see the fruits of absentee mothers in our society
with more and more children having no family loyalty, anger issues,
lack of security, and good morals
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