The Parenting Diaries

I work full time, 6 days a week. I’m not a single mom, I have a husband who’s working too and we help each other with the finances. I chose to work outside the home because it is the only option for us right now although I dream of someday, be able to work from home and tend to the needs of my child (future children) and generating income on the side by doing so. Wouldn’t that be perfect? Earning while staying at home?

The company I am working for has more than 80,000 employees with only around 800 female population. In this time of global crisis and recession, there had been lots of cost cutting  programs going on: turning off lights during lunch break, reduction of printing and paper use, using mug cups instead of disposable paper cups, etc, etc.

Their next move? They want to cut down on the already minority female employee population. The reason they say or rumors say, is that working women have “issues” like kids can get sick, being absent because of painful menstrual periods, attending parent-teacher meetings, pregnancy, childbirth and others. If you are a mom, you know what I am trying to convey. For the past two years since working here, I’ve had family emergencies, I have brought my kid to office because the caretaker is sick and I have taken off due to painful monthly sickness so I am a very qualified candidate for the employee cutdown. I don’t know what’s ahead and all I can do is hope for the best.

I am sure I am not alone in this boat, there are hundreds and hundreds of women being sacked off their job due to the “issues”. Will this wicked corporate mentality go on and on, generation after generation? This is not the 50’s and I thought times have changed. So much for companies declaring they’re an “equal opportunity employer”.