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In this week's reading, "Mothering Is Liberation: Giving Birth to Alagaan Pedagogy, Tintiangco-Cubales talks about her experience of being a professor and a mother at the same time. She feels doubtful that she is not doing well as a professor, and as a mother, she is not spending enough time on her kids as well. "To be a good scholar means to be analytical and detached, while to be a good mother and a good teacher means to be engaged and caring" (Tintiangco-Cubales 351). She stuck with the idea that she has to choose either to be a good professor and spend less time on her kids, or spends her time on researching and teaching instead of the kids. I understand her difficulties. Since in Asian culture, women are defined to care more about their families not their jobs, and the company are tending to hire men since they are defined to support their families financially. Some women also give up their jobs and stay home doing housework all day. I don't think that is a good phenomenon for human development. I think women have the same abilities as men and men should also take care of the families and do some housework. That way women can spend more time on their career and not rely on men. That's the way they can be a good mother and also a good professor.
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.
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