Response # 35

The EEOC recommends certain balances for work/family life. It explores pitfall that each company posses and could do better to provide women and families with support for their work and family life. Providing assistance childcare is the major complication that women have in their lives to try and balance their work life and family life. Women are still the dominate person to take are of the children in the household and they also make up around 46% of the work force. They are performing two very important jobs which one is only bringing income into the household. Men have begun to take part in the childcare process but not at a level that will help alleviate the stress that women have been burdened with. It is extremely difficult for women to balance a work and family life when there is little assistance from their employers. In Chaudry’s book he gives plenty of real life examples as to why single mothers cannot always have a job. This is because they cannot find childcare in which they can afford. As soon as they do receive an income the government shuts them off of childcare and then the mother is working o send her child to a day care. As any person would say with common sense, that makes no sense. So therefore, the mothers have no other choice but to quit the job and return back on to the government subsidies. How are these mothers supposed to ever hold a career when there is no assistance for them to keep the career? Almost every mother in the book said the most difficult part was trying to find reliable safe childcare for her children. The job part was easy. It was the childcare that kept them from keeping the job long-term. This leads employers to believe that women are not dependable when they have children when really it is not that the women are not dependable, it is the employers who do not provide any assistance which would allow them to become dependable.