Part-Time Work

Friday, July 13, 2007 8:18:35 AM

From today's Sojourners mail... ------- Part-Time Looks Fine To Working Mothers "In a notable shift during the past decade, working mothers overwhelmingly view fewer work hours as the best option for their busy lives with young children. The proportion of mothers who feel that way jumped 12 percentage points since 1997." Most Working Moms Prefer Part-Time Jobs "A sharply increasing portion of America's working mothers say their ideal situation would include a part-time job, rather than working full time or staying at home, a new national survey finds." ------- I actually believe that a lot of people would prefer part-time jobs and have time for the rest of their lives. Maybe that is a Gen X phenomenon. In my last company, one of the guys took a month off for vacation and he and his wife traveled around the US to find a place where they could both work 20 hours a week as consultants and have a house and a family and live their lives. I thought that was neat. I wonder if the people that are working for benefits alone will suddenly go all out for part time work if this country ever gets on the national health care bandwagon? I also found this comment quite funny in the first article: The study also offered a glimpse into how mothers view their own parenting. Just 28 percent of the mothers surveyed who work full time gave themselves the highest rating as a parent; 41 percent of mothers working part time and 43 percent of stay-at-home mothers gave themselves top marks. In another comparison, mothers with college degrees did not rate themselves as highly as those with some time in college; mothers with a high school education or less gave themselves the highest scores. hahaha I already am overly hard on myself, so what in the world will happen if I have kids? Go on Prozac?