Week 8 Blog Huiling Chen ASA001 A01

Week 8 Blog Huiling Chen ASA001 A01

People like to categorize others. Whether you are male or female, marriage or single, mother or not, professor or not, young or old, white or color. It seems like categorizing people will provide more insight into an individual. It is true that sometimes these categories might share common characteristics. But is that right to do so? Are we going to impose all the expectations and stereotypes toward the individuals in the group? As mentioned in the reading, the mother should be spending a large amount of time with their children. But what about the father? Why we only expect fathers have the right to fully devote their time in their work while mothers should be competent to focus on both? According to research, in the COVID-19 period, male scholars’ the publication number is not affected while female scholars’ publication number is strictly declined. So, who is taking care of the children at home? This expectation of female should be doing the mothering in the family and emotional labor in work exist for a long time. So, every time when the female doesn’t focus on these expects, people might consider they are not doing their job which is a kind of discrimination towards women. However, it seems like the male is carrying less or concentrated expectations than women.

Questions:

In the case of mothering expectation, I don’t really understand why people are so cared about whether the female is taking care of the kids or male is taking care of the kids? And why people expect the mother take care of the kids more (except for the feeding part), even though the male is also important in raising the kids?

Citation:

“How I'm Mothering the Wounded Kid Inside Who Just Wanted Love.” Tiny Buddha, 17 June 2019, tinybuddha.com/blog/how-im-mothering-the-wounded-kid-inside-who-just-wanted-love/.