ASA 2 A01
Week 8
This week's readings were "W.P. She Shall Not be Moved" and "Mothering is Liberation: Giving Brith to Alagaan Pedagogy (Pedagogy of Care)" and I chose to focus on the "Mothering is Liberation" piece. This piece by Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales is another reading about the obstacles that women of Academia face. The main focus, however, is the obstacles and difficulties they have to overcome when they decide to start a family. This piece also highlights the many benefits of being a teacher who is also a mother, and I could not agree more.
Having children, being a mother should not be looked at as a setback in any career. The only aspect your employers see if you tell them you are planning a family is that your time will be divided between your child and your job instead of being fully focused on your job. However, I think that they often overlook every other positive effect that a woman has after having a child. She becomes more responsible, more understanding, more sympathetic and empathetic. She becomes capable of understanding people much better. She becomes extremely attentive to detail. These are some of the many attributes that come with being a mother and all these attributes will also help the employers because it will actually increase her efficiency at her job. Being a mother means growing in many other ways which is also something employers in academia and in all kinds of careers should also factor in when they decide to judge a woman's capabilities based on if she is a mother. Question: When will people start looking at having a family as a huge advantage in the growth of a person professionally rather than seeing it as a disadvantage professionally?
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Valverde, K.-L. C., & Dariotis, W. M. (2020). Fight the tower: Asian American women scholars resistance and renewal in the academy. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Bryant, K., Sheinzok, N., Fish, Q., & Roode, D. M. (n.d.). The Working Mom Complex: There Aren't Enough Hours in the Day. Retrieved from https://www.workingmother.com/working-mom-complex-not-enough-time
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