UNIT 6: GENDER EQUALITY
WORKING MOTHER
WORKING MOTHERS
ADVANTAGES OF BEING A WORKING MOTHER
They help their husbands pay household expenses and
satisfy their children`s growing needs. Life is getting more
and more expensive, so women`s salaries are becoming
important to their household budgets.
Experiences at work widen their knowledge and gradually mature them. Through working they discover their strengths and weaknesses, become more knowledgeable and can find good ways to educate their children
When children see how their parents work hard to support the families and share domestic responsibilities they will learn from them. Such family values as hard work, responsibilities and love are likely to pass down from generation to generation
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A.Supporting ideas 1:
working mothers conribute to household income.
EXPLAINATIONS:
They help their husbands pay household expenses and satisfy their children`s growing needs.
Life is getting more and more expensive, so women`s salaries are becoming important
to their household budgets. 
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B.Supporting ideas 2:
working mothers are good educators for their children.
EXPLAINATIONS:
Experiences at work widen their knowledge and gradually mature them.�
They discover their strengths and weaknesses, become more knowledgeable and can find good ways to educate their children.�
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C.Supporting ideas 3:
�working mothers set good examples for their children.
EXPLAINATIONS:
children see how their parents work hard to support the families and share domestic responsibilities they will learn from them.
Such family values as hard work, responsibilities and love are likely to pass down�
CONCLUDING SENTENSE:
Clearly, mothers should be strongly supported to work outside the home.
DISAVANTAGEDS OF BEING A WORKING MOTHER
Suggested writing
Mothers should be strongly discouraged from working outside the home.
First, women have traditional roles as housewives and housekeepers. They should stay at home, doing housework and looking after their husbands and children. In extended families where more than two generations live together, women are also the main caregivers for elderly people.
Second, working mothers do not have enough time. Men`s work finish at the office, but women`s work is extended to their households. After an eight-hour working day, these exhausted women have to do household chores, take care of their husbands and children without having any time to relax.
Finally, working mothers cannot be good workers. Tiring and boring chores at home negatively affect women`s tasks in their working place. They cannot concentrate or work as effectively as those who do not have to worry about takingkids to school, picking them up after school and doing housework.
Clearly, mothers should not be encouraged to work outside the home.
HOMEWORK