More and more women in the West are giving up promising careers to take care of kids and are settling for domesticity. Do you think it is a positive trend?

The article suggests that it’s mostly women in low-paying jobs who are opting out of offices. It’s sad that careers for women are still regarded only as an economic necessity. The fine print also suggests that more women are in less meaningful jobs that don’t contribute much to their psychological fulfillment.

If women learn to see working as a means of self-expression, I don’t see any conflict with domesticity although the balancing act is tough. And I strongly believe that women are capable of handling the show on both fronts.  

Or can choose to have the best of everything by working from home. Seeing a career and domesticity as mutually exclusive is socially regressive and not a good model for bringing up our children. One is not born a woman - but becomes one – shaped by society’s expectations?!

Dr. Uma Chandrasekaran, Knowledge Village, Dubai

YES.! It is a positive trend. Kids need time and a hand to hold their finger to teach as per our culture and trends and respect of parents and the world, if we leave them on their own while they are 6 months old to house maids and spent our life what we say freedom than we are going to face a big disaster in the future generation. 

We have to teach our children from our experience and that they will only listen to you if you had spent time with them and not shouting at them when they are adults. They will leave you and themselve on their own. A Child Needs a Mother not an office General Manager. An educated mother is much more better than an illiterate house maid.

Nadeem Naqi, Karachi, Pakistan 

Yes it is. Homemaking is a challenging career in itself. Making a niche for ourself in the house is much more difficult than making it in the corporate world.

Shubhangi, Mumbai, India 

   
Yes, as Napoleon once said, “Give me good mothers I'll give you good nation”. And working women cannot take care of their kids properly. 

 Syed, Doha

This is a positive trend... After all we need to take care our children, not the job. Being a woman, it is her duty to take care her kids and more women convincing that... It is very good positive movement.

Lolitha, Sydney

Yes, it is a positive step to a brighter life, as children have to be brought up carefully.

Aparna narayanan, Dubai

Depends what makes the woman happy, if she is the career oriented type and has ambitions she shouldn’t have children at that point where she hasn’t really gotten down to achieving what she wants career wise cause rearing a child is a tiring, mentally and physically sapping full time occupation at least for the first five years (no matter how supportive and helpful the partner is the mother has to do most of the work.) 

If you are unfulfilled with your career and have a strong desire to give it all up (meeting your friends whenever you like, going to restaurants, getting a full nights sleep, bathing is peace, working out wherever you like etc) go ahead and have children cause that has joys of its own and is a very strong natural instinct.

Elahe, Islamabad

Women in the west have since long, have given utmost importance to their career and never did they virtually accept themselves as fragile and weak, incapable of handling situations of stress, toil and resistance. They always had a modern perspective and ignored the conventional role of a woman only as a home- maker. 

Now, after over indulging themselves, for centuries, in challenging roles of executives, managers, administrators and directors, it is indeed heartening to read their latest preference for home and family. They have ultimately realised the inimitable pleasure and the value of motherhood .It should be viewed as a significant shift from materialistic thinking to the world of the real pleasures.

Vijay Singh, Abu Dhabi

I strongly endorse this trend and there are several reasons to support my comment. Human (kids here) have thousand-time priority of over products or the business or the wealth to take care of them by mothers. We all have been avarice for decades now its time to give proper attention to moral or ethical portion of our society, which has more worth than material wealth. Keep it up women!

Muddassir, Karachi, Pakistan

I fully agree with the fact that women should give preference to the family and kids especially then to building up their career. Children need utmost care and attention when they are young and also the close attachment to the mothers during this period strengthens the sense of security and boosts the self-confidence of the child. Also nobody can take care better of the child then the parents themselves.

Batul Mustafa, Dubai

If a woman can live with only her income, nothing wrong in giving up her job and look after her child until they grow big to go to school. 

Vijay, Oman

Depends what makes the woman happy, if she is the career oriented type and has ambitions she shouldn’t have children at that point where she hasn’t really gotten down to achieving what she wants career wise cause rearing a child is a tiring, mentally and physically sapping full time occupation at least for the first five years (no matter how supportive and helpful the partner is the mother has to do most of the work.) 

If you are unfulfilled with your career and have a strong desire to give it all up (meeting your friends whenever you like, going to restaurants, getting a full nights sleep, bathing is peace, working out wherever you like etc) go ahead and have children cause that has joys of its own and is a very strong natural instinct. 

Elahe, Islamabad

Women in the west have since long, have given utmost importance to their career and never did they virtually accept themselves as fragile and weak, incapable of handling situations of stress, toil and resistance. 

They always had a modern perspective and ignored the conventional role of a woman only as a home- maker. Now, after over indulging themselves, for centuries, in challenging roles of executives, managers, administrators and directors, it is indeed heartening to read their latest preference for home and family. 

They have ultimately realised the inimitable pleasure and the value of motherhood .It should be viewed as a significant shift from materialistic thinking to the world of the real pleasures. 

Vijay Singh, Abu Dhabi

I strongly endorse this trend and there are several reasons to support my comment. Human (kids here) have thousand-time priority of over products or the business or the wealth to take care of them by mothers. 

We all have been avarice for decades now its time to give proper attention to moral or ethical portion of our society, which has more worth than material wealth. Keep it up women! 

Muddassir, Karachi, Pakistan 

 Family and kids definitely come first! 

Noman, Dubai

As a single mother I strongly feel that is it highly unfair that woman cannot sponsor their child. What needs to be realised is that if a wife is not allowed to sponsor her spouse, which means living away from each other. There are more chances of adultery being committed. Why do we need to encourage this? Let the family be together. As long as their are not interfering or breaking the law. Furthermore, UAE is a much more safer place for woman single parent to live and to bring the child up with the right ethics and give them the right upbringing. 

RJ, London

Definitely, unless she just cannot afford to leave her career because of the family's poor financial conditions. 

Deepty, Dubai

In today's world, even when we speak of equality and rights for women, there is always a hidden veil. Here in UAE, present scenario is getting a little out of hand for expatriates due to emiratisation. Ok! At first hand it is good but it should not cause to disrupt the modernisation of work and standards of education.

Women do face problems when it comes to sponserships, which makes it difficult to continue work here. Women at first hand must be allowed to sponsor there kids just like men do and also get the same wages that are applicable to men.

Recently, when applied to get promoted, the issue raised of hiring more men so that they could be promoted. I don’t get it. Aren’t we worth the stand, don’t we do the same work, he does.... Things got to change out here and pretty fast with the rules and policies that tend to change day by day. 

Riya Margaret, Abu Dhabi