Is: not providing the inferstructure required for a mother to go back to work. sexism?
January 29, 2013 at 6:53 am
(This post was last modified: January 29, 2013 at 6:58 am by Something completely different.)
So I am at nightschool, and when I first entered it I was suprised to notice that most students weren`t people like me, who got kicked out of highschool and then worked for a few years. But mostly young women who became pregnant during highschool.
So my classes are basicaly filled with young mums. And therefor alot of activity I have recently engaged in was together with those young mums.
I oftern thereby hear what they have to say about various different subjects, what they mostly converse about is being a mum.
And one thing which was talked about last friday, was a comparison between the French and German social networks.
Now in Germany and in Austria, it is extremly difficult to get a place for your child at a nursery, so that the parents can go back to work at forenoon.
Some parents here have to search for such a place even before their child is actualy born. And if no place for the child can be found, alot of mothers have to stay at home and take care of the child and cannot reenter working life or continue education.
Now, in France having a place at a nursery is a constitutional right. Meaning that every parent can demand and will get a place at a nursery for their child, which means that in France alot more women reenter working life and continue education after giving birth.
Now my fellow students argued that this made the German sociaty sexist.
I disagreed. Because:
Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland have the same systems as France, jet the rate of man-woman equality in these scandinavian countries is higher than in France. Why?
Because in the scandinavian countries there is a high number of men who go into maternity leave and the ooutdated sociatial model of "the man being the families provider" is dieng out there.
Their entire argument falls together in my opinion because it ignores men. There are also single fathers out there and men can also face the same social challeneges as a father as women do.
To me the sexism in this question is not conected to the providing of institution which make being a parent easier.
It is the outdated sociatial model I mentioned before, which is sexist. And in France one can see that although a place at a nursery is a constitutional right, women still enjoy less equality than in other European nations which have or do not have that constitutional right provided for them.
So my classes are basicaly filled with young mums. And therefor alot of activity I have recently engaged in was together with those young mums.
I oftern thereby hear what they have to say about various different subjects, what they mostly converse about is being a mum.
And one thing which was talked about last friday, was a comparison between the French and German social networks.
Now in Germany and in Austria, it is extremly difficult to get a place for your child at a nursery, so that the parents can go back to work at forenoon.
Some parents here have to search for such a place even before their child is actualy born. And if no place for the child can be found, alot of mothers have to stay at home and take care of the child and cannot reenter working life or continue education.
Now, in France having a place at a nursery is a constitutional right. Meaning that every parent can demand and will get a place at a nursery for their child, which means that in France alot more women reenter working life and continue education after giving birth.
Now my fellow students argued that this made the German sociaty sexist.
I disagreed. Because:
Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland have the same systems as France, jet the rate of man-woman equality in these scandinavian countries is higher than in France. Why?
Because in the scandinavian countries there is a high number of men who go into maternity leave and the ooutdated sociatial model of "the man being the families provider" is dieng out there.
Their entire argument falls together in my opinion because it ignores men. There are also single fathers out there and men can also face the same social challeneges as a father as women do.
To me the sexism in this question is not conected to the providing of institution which make being a parent easier.
It is the outdated sociatial model I mentioned before, which is sexist. And in France one can see that although a place at a nursery is a constitutional right, women still enjoy less equality than in other European nations which have or do not have that constitutional right provided for them.
