Summary
It's time for women to demand a raise. According to salary.com, a full-time stay-at-home mom would earn $134,121 if paid for her work. These experts in compensation surveyed 400 mothers and found the stay-at-home mom is part day-care worker, housekeeper, cook, computer operator, laundry machine operator, janitor, facilities manager, van driver, chief executive and psychologist.
In the spirit of Mother's Day, it's appropriate to contemplate the undervalued contribution of stay-at-home moms. Even salary.com's list of job responsibilities overlooks several roles stay-at-home moms assume: They are first-line-of-defense law enforcement officers, protecting children with their presence in our neighborhoods; they are teaching assistants, manning the field trips and fund-raisers that help keep our schools running; they are the good Samaritans who make communities work, assuring the elderly neighbor's walk is shoveled and the dog running down the street is safely returned to his owner.See the full content of this document
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Mothers, Don't Go On Strike
It's an interesting exercise to calculate the cost of replacing full-time moms with hired help, but it shouldn't be taken too far. In reality, a job posti...
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