American culture Quote by Emily Matchar Download Open image “American culture at large has failed working mothers.” — Emily Matchar ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare American culture Culture Mother
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 Copy Share Image
Successful Mothers are not the ones that have never struggled. They are the ones that never give up, despite the struggles. — Sharon Jaynes Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“After all, the media have been and are the major dispenser of the ideals and norms surrounding motherhood: Millions of us have gone to… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
'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 Copy Share Image
“For women with children, the new handmade economy offers the tantalizing possibility of flexible, part-time, at home work--the "egg money" of the twenty-first century.” — Emily Matchar Copy Share Image
“A privileging of individual rights over group goods can lead to serious problems, as we’ve seen with the antivaccination movement.” — Emily Matchar Copy Share Image
“But she realized that modern homemaking could be creatively fulfilling in a way she'd never imagined. Unlike previous generations of housewives, who Erika imagines… — Emily Matchar Copy Share Image
“There’s no evidence that women are actually happier at home. In fact numerous studies show that working moms are happier and more fulfilled than… — Emily Matchar Copy Share Image
“Why is it we don’t intervene in the bureaucracy?” asks Chris Bobel, the gender studies scholar, who has noted that many young activists prefer… — Emily Matchar Copy Share Image
“[Judith Warner:] Our neurotic quest to perfect the mechanics of mothering can be interpreted as an effort to do on an individual level what… — Emily Matchar Copy Share Image
“Dozens of my own friends and acquaintances--ambitious, educated women who might have turned up their noses at anything domestic had they been born a… — Emily Matchar Copy Share Image
“Does the burden of “do it yourself” fall harder on women than men?” — Emily Matchar Copy Share Image
“Golden sees parental uninterest in collective solutions as part of a larger “decline in the social contract”… "As a scholar, I'm very disturbed that… — Emily Matchar Copy Share Image
“Choosing a simpler life does not offer me a paycheck, a pat on the back from the parents who paid for a “wasted” education,… — Emily Matchar Copy Share Image
“I was in need of some community," she said. "I think that's the reason so many women bloggers start blogging, just to find someone… — Emily Matchar Copy Share Image
“If women cut back on their ambitions en masse, institutional change will never happen and the glass ceiling will lower. We need to be… — Emily Matchar Copy Share Image
“Medical studies have shown that cursing reduces levels of stress and pain. Repressing your anger is not healthy. It's much better to verbalize it,… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
“Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“information, in a stream-of-consciousness soliloquy that revealed the extent to which he had internalised the adversarial fragmentation of American culture and made it a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
[If] we can celebrate that in a way that celebrates our love for New England as well as our love for the Italian culture… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that it's the first time that perhaps the most important art form… — Rafael Vinoly Copy Share Image
And certainly in British culture, as I'm sure it's the same with American culture, we warm to cultures where people can make fun of… — Omid Djalili Copy Share Image
Canada could have enjoyed: English government, French culture, and American know-how. Instead it ended up with: English know-how, French government, and American culture. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs - almost as fads - rather than as the… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
Being educated in the United States gave me a good understanding of American culture. I think I got a lot of influence from the… — Masayoshi Son Copy Share Image
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