And what should fathers "earn" for doing all the things they do? This is the most f*cked up full-of-shit "study" I've ver seen. What a load of crap.
I'm a stay-at-home dad, so where's my paycheck? Oh, that's right- I do it because I'm a parent, not for the big bucks. Gee, that's what I thought marriage and raising kids was all about- a partnership where each person helps to accomplish the goal of raising the kids. And we're supposed to pay mothers for simply doing their part? Excuse me whilst I go puketh.
Of course if you take the study and then factor in all of the stuff they don't count (free food and housing, medical care, a personal car, etc) then you realize that this study is a huge load of sexist bullshit.
[hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"] [font face="Verdana,Sans-serif"][font color="black" size="2"]By Ellen Wulfhorst[/font][/font][/p] [font face="Verdana,Sans-serif"][font color="black" size="2"]NEW YORK (Reuters) - A full-time stay-at-home mother would earn $134,121 a year if paid for all her work, an amount similar to a top U.S. ad executive, a marketing director or a judge, according to a study released on Wednesday.[/font][/font][/p] [font face="Verdana,Sans-serif"][font color="black" size="2"]A mother who works outside the home would earn an extra $85,876 annually on top of her actual wages for the work she does at home, according to the study by Waltham, Massachusetts-based compensation experts Salary.com.[/font][/font][/p] [font face="Verdana,Sans-serif"][font color="black" size="2"]To reach the projected pay figures, the survey calculated the earning power of the 10 jobs respondents said most closely comprise a mother's role -- housekeeper, day-care teacher, cook, computer operator, laundry machine operator, janitor, facilities manager, van driver, chief executive and psychologist.[/font][/font][/p] [font face="Verdana,Sans-serif"][font color="black" size="2"]"You can't put a dollar value on it. It's worth a lot more," said Kristen Krauss, 35, as she hurriedly packed her four children, all aged under 8, into a minivan in New York while searching frantically for her keys. "Just look at me."[/font][/font][/p] [font face="Verdana,Sans-serif"][font color="black" size="2"]Employed mothers reported spending on average 44 hours a week at their outside job and 49.8 hours at their home job, while the stay-at-home mother worked 91.6 hours a week, it showed.[/font][/font][/p] [font face="Verdana,Sans-serif"][font color="black" size="2"]An estimated 5.6 million women in the United States are stay-at-home mothers with children under age 15, according to the most recent U.S. Census Bureau data. [/font][/font][/p] [font face="Verdana,Sans-serif"][font color="black" size="2"]NOT 'JUST A MOM'[/font][/font][/p] [font face="Verdana,Sans-serif"][font color="black" size="2"]"It's good to acknowledge the job that's being done, and that it's not that these women are settling for 'just a mom,"' said Bill Coleman, senior vice president of compensation at Salary.com. "They are actually doing an awful lot."[/font][/font][/p] [font face="Verdana,Sans-serif"][font color="black" size="2"]According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, some 26 million women with children under age 18 work in the nation's paid labor force.[/font][/font][/p] [font face="Verdana,Sans-serif"][font color="black" size="2"]Both employed and stay-at-home mothers said the lowest-paying job of housekeeper was their most common role, with employed mothers working 7.2 hours a week as housekeeper and stay-at-home mothers working 22.1 hours in that role.[/font][/font][/p] [font face="Verdana,Sans-serif"][font color="black" size="2"]"Every husband I've ever spoken to said, 'I'm keeping my job. You keep yours.' It's a tough one," said Gillian Forrest, 39, a stay-at-home mother of 22-month-old Alex in New York. "I don't know if you could put a dollar amount on it but it would be nice to get something."[/font][/font][/p] [font face="Verdana,Sans-serif"][font color="black" size="2"]To compile its study, Salary.com surveyed about 400 mothers online over the last two months.[/font][/font][/p] [font face="Verdana,Sans-serif"][font color="black" size="2"]Salary.com offers a Web site (http://www.mom.salary.com) where mothers can calculate what they could be paid, based on how many children they have, where they live and other factors. The site will produce a printable document that looks like a paycheck, Coleman said.[/font][/font][/p] [font face="Verdana,Sans-serif"][font color="black" size="2"]"It's obviously not negotiable," he said.[/font][/font][/p] [font face="Verdana,Sans-serif"][font color="black" size="2"]On average, the mother who works outside the house earns a base pay of $62,798 for a 40-hour at-home work week and $23,078 in overtime; a stay-at-home mother earned a base pay of $45,697 and $88,424 in overtime, it said.[/font][/font][/p] [font face="Verdana,Sans-serif"][font color="black" size="2"]In a Salary.com study conducted last year, stay-at-home mothers earned $131,471. The potential earnings of mothers who work outside the home was not calculated in the previous study. (That's because they'd NEVER make that wagein the real world doing what the study considers as "work". -tb)
[/font][/font][/p][hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"][a href="http://reuters.myway.com/article/20060503/2006-05-03T090712Z_01_N02301962_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-LIFE-WORK-DC.html"]Full-Of-Shit-Study[/a]
