Gina- the work is NOT more difficult, if you look at it from a technical comeplexity perspective, loading dishwasher or cooking is not quite as difficult as working on a really tough legal case, some intense surgery, resolving some system failure that could have impact on businesses of your major clients.
its not an entire days work, and I use my mum as an example who worked as a teacher and managaed a home and we really did not feel a difference when she started working again, or I look at my sis who is a doc and runs a household with her inlaws liing with her for 6-9 months out of the year.
your job security, career path, earning ability, promotion, salary raise depends on the people you work at home.
Now someone may say that well the quality of life depends on how the husband or inlaws (if they are living together) perceived the work quality and that is a valid point, but the number of stakeholders and number of things that can be out of your own control are significantly less, a wife does not get a malpractice suit from her kids if the rice is overdone, shareholders dont throw a fit causing a huge impact if the new product did not meet market expectations..
I have no issues with stay at home moms, none. except for the lazy kinds. They do important work, but really its not that much, the biggest chunk of it is childcare and spending quality time with kids and giving them a rich learning experience including field trips etc.
Lets not make it moe than it is, a stay at home lady with no kids, or kids in school does not have enough work to keep her going 9-10 hours every day. I did not say its an hour or twos work..but its def not 10 hrs a day every day..
Please prove me wrong, list daily activities and the amount of touch time...not elapsed time. so dont say oh laundry takes an hour and a half, no...laundry takes 30 mins max, loading,unloading, folding, hanging..the time that the washign machine is running does not count :)
you are a very smart man X2!
I totally agree with you.