43 Percent Married Women with Kids dont want to work full time

[Anonymous]

My DH has a male employee who is absolutely the log on early because he has to take his child to an appointment type. He's more of a core working hours guy. They get along just fine - both get their jobs done, communicate well when they will and won't be available, meet hours requirements as set by their employer.

I imagine there are many working mom boss/employee pairings that are the same. It can absolutely work.

And the freedom to go part time should definitely be more of a thing these days. I somewhat understand that a 30 hour a week employee who might not get many benefits still takes up office space if you're in an office. But in the days of at least more telework why not allow total hour flexibility too?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: I don't have any kids and I'd rather not work full time if I didn't have to - and I definitely enjoy my flexible work schedule. I worked very hard to be able to WFH full time. Yes, to be able to to the dentist - but also just because this is how I want to live my life. My husband also works from home - and he also worked very very hard to be able to do this.

I don't mean to be rude but you should quit it with the random capitalization. It doesn't support your point that you're an excellent employee being dragged down by all those lazy moms.

Same.

You Don't Like random Capitalization?

I work as an Editor and it drives me Nuts!

When I worked in Congress it REALLY drove me nuts - for some reason, government employees do random capitalization more than anyone else I've ever encountered. I think they think that capitalizing something shows respect.

Germans?

[Anonymous]

I mean, don't a lot of people, regardless of whether they have kids, work fulltime just for the money?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean, don't a lot of people, regardless of whether they have kids, work fulltime just for the money?

That's why it's called "work"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean, don't a lot of people, regardless of whether they have kids, work fulltime just for the money?

Yes but there are a lot of women in urban areas like DC who enjoy working and get a lot of fulfillment out of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: I don't have any kids and I'd rather not work full time if I didn't have to - and I definitely enjoy my flexible work schedule. I worked very hard to be able to WFH full time. Yes, to be able to to the dentist - but also just because this is how I want to live my life. My husband also works from home - and he also worked very very hard to be able to do this.

I don't mean to be rude but you should quit it with the random capitalization. It doesn't support your point that you're an excellent employee being dragged down by all those lazy moms.

Same.

You Don't Like random Capitalization?

I work as an Editor and it drives me Nuts!

When I worked in Congress it REALLY drove me nuts - for some reason, government employees do random capitalization more than anyone else I've ever encountered. I think they think that capitalizing something shows respect.

OMG I am an editor, too. Hello, doppelganger! (Don't shoot me for leaving off the umlauts!)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: I don't have any kids and I'd rather not work full time if I didn't have to - and I definitely enjoy my flexible work schedule. I worked very hard to be able to WFH full time. Yes, to be able to to the dentist - but also just because this is how I want to live my life. My husband also works from home - and he also worked very very hard to be able to do this.

I don't mean to be rude but you should quit it with the random capitalization. It doesn't support your point that you're an excellent employee being dragged down by all those lazy moms.

Same.

You Don't Like random Capitalization?

I work as an Editor and it drives me Nuts!

When I worked in Congress it REALLY drove me nuts - for some reason, government employees do random capitalization more than anyone else I've ever encountered. I think they think that capitalizing something shows respect.

Guilty as charged! We have so many f'ing defined terms that I forget which are which and in what context and end up capitalizing random nouns.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't have any kids and I'd rather not work full time if I didn't have to - and I definitely enjoy my flexible work schedule. I worked very hard to be able to WFH full time. Yes, to be able to to the dentist - but also just because this is how I want to live my life. My husband also works from home - and he also worked very very hard to be able to do this.

I don't mean to be rude but you should quit it with the random capitalization. It doesn't support your point that you're an excellent employee being dragged down by all those lazy moms.

Why in the world would you be on a parenting discussion board, posting your irrelevant opinions, when YOU don't HAVE any KIDS. Please GO AWAY.

It's a parent website, but you're on the jobs forum. People of all parental status have jobs, didn't you know?

[Anonymous]

I have a fully remote part time job (30 hrs/week) and LOVE the flexibility. I usually log on at 5 am or so and work a couple hours. Then the kids get up so I take a break to get them fed and off to school. Once they leave, I finish up the rest of my work and have the entire afternoon free. It's really the best of both worlds!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Breaking news. People actually want flexibility.

1/2 wants flexibility the other 1/2 does not want it. That is the conflict of work styles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Watching the news last night and found this interesting. A women group that focuses on working moms with kids at home did a Poll and found this out.

43 percent of working Moms work just for the money (most likely similar for Dads)

50 percent of women want a flexible work arrangement They hop on and hop off work working around chores, kids etc. For instance doing a bit before work a bit after kids in bed, maybe some multi tasking while waiting at bus stop on work phone.

50 percent of women want a rigid clear cut line of work hours than family hours. A clear work schedule such as I work 800 am to 430 pm exactly and that is work and well clock out hits that is family time do not disturb

It was interesting that between working Moms the two groups of Moms actually have trouble working together. I saw this at work as I had a working mom supervisor she was like logged on at home at 8 am sharp shooting out emails and making work requests and around 415 pm another flurry of requests and she logged off at 430 pm. In a work from home job she created her own imaginary work hours. I hated worked with her. I try to go to Dentists, meet someone lunch, even take a shower mid day and she be on top of me. I am more lets log on at 10 pm watching TV to wrap up work, jump on early if going out to Dentist.

To quote Rodney King why cant we just get along? But the point was you got only 67 percent of your working Moms who even want to be there and then on that 67 percent 1/2 the Moms want to work one way and the other half and another way.

i say results are similar for men However, Men don't do as much childcare

What's wrong with 8 am to 4:30? Those are normal working hours. You don't sound educated enough to be salaried, so if you're working more, at least you're getting paid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't have any kids and I'd rather not work full time if I didn't have to - and I definitely enjoy my flexible work schedule. I worked very hard to be able to WFH full time. Yes, to be able to to the dentist - but also just because this is how I want to live my life. My husband also works from home - and he also worked very very hard to be able to do this.

I don't mean to be rude but you should quit it with the random capitalization. It doesn't support your point that you're an excellent employee being dragged down by all those lazy moms.

Why in the world would you be on a parenting discussion board, posting your irrelevant opinions, when YOU don't HAVE any KIDS. Please GO AWAY.

Your projecting…😂

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: I don't have any kids and I'd rather not work full time if I didn't have to - and I definitely enjoy my flexible work schedule. I worked very hard to be able to WFH full time. Yes, to be able to to the dentist - but also just because this is how I want to live my life. My husband also works from home - and he also worked very very hard to be able to do this.

I don't mean to be rude but you should quit it with the random capitalization. It doesn't support your point that you're an excellent employee being dragged down by all those lazy moms.

Same.

You Don't Like random Capitalization?

I work as an Editor and it drives me Nuts!

When I worked in Congress it REALLY drove me nuts - for some reason, government employees do random capitalization more than anyone else I've ever encountered. I think they think that capitalizing something shows respect.

Germans?

Educated Germans are smart enough to know that nouns are not capitalized in English.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a fully remote part time job (30 hrs/week) and LOVE the flexibility. I usually log on at 5 am or so and work a couple hours. Then the kids get up so I take a break to get them fed and off to school. Once they leave, I finish up the rest of my work and have the entire afternoon free. It's really the best of both worlds!

My manager is a 8am-430 pm schedule no exceptions. She puts kids on bus starts work, then she has hard end time. One staff I think quit over it. She takes lunch the same exact time every day and she also takes a 15 minute break exactly at bus stop pick up time. She peppers you with questions and only available during those house. She is very hands on with her staff. But as a working Mom she is 100 percent available for work when working but 100 percent unavailable outside those hours. You would be toxic with her. That's the issue. But to her it is freeing to compartmentalize work from her own life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a dad and I don't want to work full time either. Unlike "most" other white people, the women in my family have always worked since we staggered off the boat from Ireland sometime in the 1840s. Working because your family needs the money but not really wanting to be there is something I call "normal."

What are you expecting, that corporations decide to pay people more so families decide they only need one income? That we return to 1950 levels of union membership and 1950s ratios of CEO to worker wages?
The investor class says "we're not going back!"

So the white women in your family worked but others didn't?? Eyeroll. Try learning some history. historically, most white women worked. On farms, in industry, as domestics, as secretaries, as teachers. White women not working is a myth.