Winnie wrote:

>If a mom works in a day care center taking care of other peoples
children, (and is paying someone else to care for hers)  she is
considered a "productive" member of society. On the other
hand, if she takes care of her own children, she is a "drain" on
society etc.  Where is the logic in this??????<

Yes, this happened to me. The director of a nursery school could not understand why I was not interested (even on a purely economic basis!)in being paid to teach other people's children while paying for a vastly inferior situation for my own child.

And THIS happened to a friend. She went back to work in the toddler room of a daycare center after the birth of her first child. The management insisted that she leave pumped milk or AIM for the baby, who would be cared for in the baby room. On her first day back, she went to nurse her baby during her lunch break and noticed that he seemed a bit fussy, but put it down to his being cared for by others. His carer assured her that he was *just fine* and would settle down. The same thing happened the next day, and by then she was also noticing that he had fewer wet and dirty diapers than usual. When she went into work on the third day, she was called into the office. The daycare director told her that he was very sorry but she would HAVE to take breaks from her work in order to nurse her baby since he was refusing to take her bottles of EBM. Of course, she was delighted, since this is what she had asked for in the first place!

Women have always worked. It was when some of our work moved out of the home and into factories and offices designed around male (and sometimes military) models, which tend to be linear rather than organically based, that problems began to arise. It is not the work itself that is the problem, but the conditions under which it is being performed.

Norma Ritter
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