Exist Quote by Catherine Reitman

“Now, here's the real beauty of this contorting contradiction. Both working mothers and stay-at-home mothers get to be failures. The ethos of intensive mothering…

— Susan J. Douglas

Working mothers are just as likely to want to conform to a standard of perfection and just as likely to suffer from their failure…

— Melinda M Marshall

We're contemptuous of 'distracted' working mothers. We're contemptuous of 'selfish' rich mothers. We're contemptuous of mothers who have no choice but to work, but…

— Kim Brooks

There is such a stigma on both sides of being a working mother, and you can fall into the trap of what you think…

— Samantha Ponder

“Double standards in domestic roles are deeply rooted in cultural attitudes and workplace practices. Working mothers are held to higher standards than working fathers…

— Barbara Kellerman

Women who become mothers are policed and regulated during pregnancy, forced to give up so much - work and ambition, often.

— Ulrika Jonsson

'Workin' Moms,' obviously, is about mothers who also work. But we're also expected to remain graceful when we return to work, and that's just…

— Catherine Reitman

Mothers suffer in the workplace. That fact is by now so painfully familiar it even has a name: the motherhood penalty.

— Alissa Quart

Many working mothers feel guilty about not being at home. And when they are there, they wish it could be perfect. This pressure to…

— Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

“Our culture sends some amazingly contradictory messages about what an ideal mother is like. Mothers try to live up to these ideals without recognizing…

— Kathleen Kendall-Tackett Ph.D

advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an insistence on…

— Mary Frances Berry

“The ideal-worker standard and norm of work devotion push mothers to the margins of economic life. And a society that marginalizes its mothers impoverishes…

— Anonymous