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Chart Shaming Working Moms While Praising Stay At Home Moms Is Making People Furious

The decision of whether or not to work is one many moms have to make. They may need to return to work after taking maternity leave because they need the money, or they may be able to stay home with their kids if they so decide. One thing is for sure, though—raising kids is very expensive.

A lot of moms might want to stay home with their children for the first few years (if possible), but then want to return to their jobs. It’s really a personal decision and one that’s very much dictated by a mom’s financial situation as well as how career-focused she is. And a woman can care about work as well as kids; it doesn’t have to be one or the other.

There are obviously pros and cons to both being a working mom or a stay-at-home one. It’s not easy to simplify. That’s why this simplistic hand-written chart posted on Facebook is causing so much controversy online—because it compares working moms unfavorably to stay-at-home moms without providing any sorts of actual facts or data.

Facebook: The Transformed Wife

This chart is so stupid. It makes all kinds of inferences about the lives of working moms as opposed to those of stay-at-home moms. It doesn’t take into account any outside factors and it lumps allll working moms into one group and alllll stay-at-home ones into another.

What mom has enough energy for intimacy with her husband “frequently”? Even a stay-at-home mom has been busy all day with kids. And I assume with the cleaning and shopping, too, since she’s not doing it on the weekends, according to the chart (another ridiculous notion).

The page where the chart was posted, The Transformed Wife, is a Christian page, and the writer has strong opinions about the place of women in the world. But the bible never said anything about moms having to stay home instead of work, or about the quality of care received by children with working moms.

The chart is, of course, being dragged into the middle of next week on Facebook, where tons of people have posted comments. Pretty much everyone agrees it’s idiotic, stay-at-home moms and working ones alike.

I’d love to see this “perfect” woman described in the stay-at-home mom category—her house is so clean she doesn’t have to spend time cleaning on weekends, and she has time to cook a nutritious meal from scratch every night. But I don’t think she actually exists.

15 Jobs You Can Actually Get with a Liberal Arts Degree

When you finally declared your major, you were so happy. Suddenly, it seemed as if college had a purpose. And then the doubts started rolling in.

“You’re going to end up living in a box for the rest of your life,” people would say, and, “Who would possibly hire someone with a degree in English in this economy,” and, “Maybe you should become a secretary.”

They’re wrong. They are so. Wrong. A liberal arts major is considered one of the largest group of students, with specialties in literature, language, math, art, music, history, psychology, and science.

So instead of using your degree to mop up your tears, here are some things you can actually do with it:

1. Public Relations

An excellent job for people who can think on their feet and are good verbal communicators.

2. Newspaper & Magazine Editing

Perfect for people who specialize in research writing and editing.

3. Journalism

This in itself holds endless possibilities, like sports writing and political writing. There can be something for everyone!

4. Advertising

Are you good at persuading people to do things they otherwise wouldn’t do? Advertisers need persuasive people!

5. Screen & Playwriting

There are always novels and poetry, but screen and playwriting means you can work anywhere – movies, TV shows, and radio broadcasts!

6. Publishing

Producing books and magazines is always something the world needs. How cool would it be to publish the next Harry Potter?

7. Curators & Tour Guides

Museums have always and will always exist. Do you like art? American History? Boats? They have museums for all of those.

8. Teaching

So you got a History degree. An English degree. Art. Probably because you love it. Teaching other people to love it sounds like a sweet deal.

9. School Administration

School administration can mean a lot of things like principals, collegiate provosts, academic department heads… Time to be in charge.

10. Non-Profits

Not all careers have to be ridiculously lucrative. If you like helping people, work for a non-profit, where their goal is to help people.

11. Graphic Design

Websites need to be designed. Logos. Fliers for advertising. Cartoons must be made.

12. Film & Directing

Not all film opportunities are exclusively Hollywood. You can film for TV shows. Documentaries for the Discovery Channel. Wendy’s commercials.

13. Interior Design

Are you the kind of person that watches too much HGTV? Then you might’ve forgotten that this is an actual job. You can do this. It’ll be great.

14. Theater Stage Design

Most plays and musicals literally cannot go on without a set – you get to employ your vision of a whole new world! And, occasionally, smash stuff.

15. Costume Design

There’s fashion and research involved, and you can work for theater companies, TV shows, and those cool Civil War reenactment places.

It’s important to remember that people with liberal arts degrees can go on to do amazing things. And, just because you got a degree in writing, doesn’t mean you can’t do something else. People with degrees in political science can go on to be environmentalists; people with degrees in English can go on to be lawyers.

The world is full of endless possibilities! Your degree and your mindset do not have to limit them.

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