week8 by yulin bai

Through this week's reading, I think many people attribute the problem to Asian women themselves. For example, when women's employment is discriminated, they think it is the natural result of their low working ability and market choice. And I forgot what kind of environment women live in. Because of the role of mother, the employed women suffer from the negative effects of job hunting, job evaluation, salary, promotion opportunities and so on. Some studies have even found that the wage gap between mothers under 35 and non mothers is even greater than that between men and women. On the one hand, after assuming the role of mother, they have to focus on their children. On the other hand, the enterprises that do not want women to have children are forced to bear the cost of women's entering the workplace, while the men who want women to have children most and the support of relevant departments for women are more limited to show that they have poor birth welfare.

People can't just talk about it from their own point of view, but ignore the larger scope of women's workplace childbearing pressure. If we can point out the fact that female graduate students are relatively poor, and reflect on the reasons behind, we can give Asian women some understanding.



I also have a lot to express about education and maternal love this week. In fact, as far as education itself is concerned, women play an important role in family education, but there is no gender difference and degradation of values. When a mother is facing her children, what they want most is to accompany, listen and tell, and to grow up with them. This is mother's love. This kind of love will shadow the child's life. The child can also feel the tenderness brought by this love in the process of accompanying his mother. In many successful people, we can feel the influence of maternal love on them. A correct education of maternal love is bound to be a successful education.

My question is, how can we help Asian women accomplish the transition between motherhood and academic roles?


Reference:


Valverde, Kieu-Linh Caroline, and Wei Ming Dariotis. Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars Resistance and Renewal in the Academy. Rutgers University Press, 2020.