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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Why should female hiring managers be MORE sympathetic to SAHM wanting to return to the workforce? [/b]They have a job to fill and need to do it with the best person available. That may not be the SAHM.

While it isn't a working versus SAHM debate, this thread clearly outlines one of the challenges of SAHM in our society. Many working moms have made that decision, that they don't want to be out of the professional workforce. Others don't have the choice.

However, when you have the choice and have opted for 13 years out of a professional situation, then the consequences are going to be the challenge to re-enter.  It isn't on the hiring manager to be sympathetic, it is on the applicant to put themselves in the position of being the absolute best candidate.

[b]The woe is me stuff is not befitting.
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I really don't think you are reading these responses closely enough; there are "hiring managers" on here saying they would ALWAYS hire a millennial over someone who chose to stay home for any amount of time. And, if you read the post, the OP is is venting that she cannot get an UNPAID position, so she understands she has to aim low. The problem here is that women are refusing to understand that a woman who has 15 years of experience and stayed home for 5 may have some experience over someone with 2 years of experience. One poster pointed out she has MORE of a vested interest to succeed than a millennial because she has expenses they don't, and they aren't burnt out.

I don't think there is a single SAHM that doesn't know what their choice does to their career, but women are pointing out the extreme bias that they have toward a woman or man who left the workforce as being weak, stupid, not hungry enough, lazy, out of date, and so on.

Some women have been helpful on these types of threads by giving practical advice over trying to shame them. And, the OP is clearly venting that she cannot work for FREE, and yet some women like pp can't help but sink their fangs into her.

And, for every "feminist" who says this is her due, then you are not a feminist. [/quote]

APPLAUSE.  So very, very true.[/quote]

Tell yourself what you want. This is reality, for men or for women, who leave the workforce voluntarily. Sorry the meanies make you cry.[/quote]

Sure, the reality is it's hard to get back into the workforce if you've taken a long extended absence, for any reason.  However, I find it amusing more than anything that some "hiring managers" here on DCUM insist they'd hire the inexperienced, immature, recent college grad over someone who has plenty of experience under his or her belt, plus maturity to go along with it.  Sorry, that definitely smacks of resentment and spite.  I would never hire someone as green as a recent grad if I had another candidate with great experience and real world skills, but gaps in his/her resume.  Nothing beats experience, wisdom, and maturity.  [/quote]

Do you work?
Do you hire?[/quote]

I was a SAHM for 9 years and now work FT.  While it wasn't a piece of cake to get hired after taking years off, it certainly wasn't the death sentence some posters like to make it out as.  Every other SAHM I know who has decided to return to work has been able to do so.  Believe it or not, my skills, degrees, and experience didn't atrophy during my time at home and I was (gasp!) able to get up to speed relatively quickly after starting back to work.    [/quote]

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