Part B ” Wage Penalty for Motherhood”
The article, “ Wage Penalty for Motherood,” by Michelle Budig and England, is a great example for what mothers have to deal with in the work force, I completely agree with their artice and research. They give examples on why mothers are being penalized in their workplace, the way their job expereicen are interrupted do to the caretaking of children.Mothers take lower paying jobs that are mother friendly,t they become less productive at work due to the demands child taking demands, they start to be discriminated by their employers.
When women leave their job to take care of their children, because they have to go on maternity leave they are taking time away from work and away from having more experience in the work field. It becomes domino affect because the women have to take time out to care fo their children and while they are home, and away from their work place, they are setting back from learning new techniques or keeping up to date with what the work place needs.Therefore by the time they return to work they have been penalized with wges cut for not been up to date in the job field.
Budig and England also discuss that women chose mother-friendly jobs, which are jobs that come with ower paying jobs but they are flexiable to understading the high demands of motherhood. The penalized for motherhood comes with a low wage and a reward to be able to be flexiable to atten any motherly events or duties. If the job were a high demaning paying job, they would not be mother friendly jobs. A mother friendly job allows mothers to attend work while earning a low wage in exchange for flexiably for motherhood.
Motherhood also get discriminated by their employers,they second guess themselves when giving a promotion to mothers because they will have more flexiability and will be more productive. They would rather give the job to a women who has no kids they believe she will be more productive and flexiable to the high demands of the work field.
Motherhood has the rewrds of having giving birth, yet it is penelazied for it. Motherhood caue with penalization in the work field, a woman has to have settle for lower wages and go to motherfriednly jobs to have flexiablilt to be a mother and have child care. They also look down by their employeers and coworkers because they may seened tired or unproductive with the demands of child caring and raising. It seems to be ironic that motherhhod comes with a high penalization when we should be caring and making the process for child care for women to be able to succeed in their work fields.
