Do some people think women are less intelligent if they choose to be stay at home wives and moms?
341608
We gave up a really good thing when we went for women rights.\n\nWe lost the right to be good mothers.  What's so good about having to work and not even having the choice to stay home most of the time?
1084135
Men love smart women.\n\nWhat guy (who has at least half of a brain) wants a dumb girl to raise his kids?????????????????\n\nAnd, it sure would make for a nicer life if the woman was smart enough to bring home a decent amount of money to help the family have a nice life.\n\nAs a dad, I KNOW that my hope is that my kids --- both boys AND GIRLS --- are smart.\n\nOh, if a guy gets intimidated, he's not going to get intimidated by a smart girl (although she MIGHT be boring).  A guy is far more likely to get intimidated by a totally gorgeous girl.
443642
some of them do think like that...i guess married men got more experience on how to handle women emotion.they are more caring too...
352627
I don't think worshiping a male god without the female aspect makes your IQ lower.  But these folks can be off-balance, and they're usually not in tune with the things going on around them.
737282
Your right with this, they seem to be concubines to the troops, but so were the Wac's and the Waves of WWII. Most of the women don't seam to mind with their lack of intelligence though. John Kerry really nailed this topic didn't he?
165966
To be completely honest, I think that people do judge women who choose not to work after they're married, since housework doesn't accumulate as readily in comparison to when one has children.\nI think that the other reply that "doing whatever makes your husband happy" is a bad/chavanistic response.  You should do what makes you happy to.  And if you are and your husband is satisfied as well, that's a benefit.  Overall, do whatever you feel you want to do.  It's your opinion that counts!
69770
Mostly it is the way people are brought up that gives them the idea that a woman's place is in the home.  Psychology has a lot to do with that thought.  Everyone has different backgrounds and experiences in life that make them agree or disagree with that debate.  I as a woman dont feel that this statement is necessarily true and feel that a man has the same responsibility over the home as his wife does.  But like I said it all depends on how one was brought up and what ideas they developed on the issue.  For instance, my grandfather made the kids do everything in the house and would ask them to let my grandmother rest.  My mother then developed the idea that she should be a helpful housewife, unlike her mother.  My father, seeing that my mother did everything in the house, never lifted a finger in the house.  I grew up thinking how unfair that was of my father and believe that both should clean up around the house and look after the kids as well as both have the responsibility to work and pay the debts.  Thankfully my husband feels the same way!!!  LOL  We both make a mess, we should both pick it up!  We both spend money, we both should earn it!!
495910
Basically, in the "olden days," the roles of mother and father/husband and wife we clearly defined. The male was the bread-winner, went to work every day, and made money, while the mother stayed at home and tended to the family and the household. But now, the opportunity for women to have professional careers has changed the structure of families with two working parents. Also, in modernity, it's almost financially impossible for an average, middle-class family to live on one salary: this, combined with the women of today's general desire to be in the work force, has changed the structure of the modern family. Now, all kinds of questions are raised: who will stay home and watch the kids, if both mom AND dad are at work? Should one parent sacrifice their career to stay at home and tend to the kids? If so, is it FAIR that one parent has to sacrifice, while the other can accomplish their dreams? The ultimate struggle of career/family has reached its ultimate peak with the changes that modernity has brought to the households of today.
988529
Everyone has there own opinion but I don't believe anyone is any better than anyone else, working or not, working or staying at home doesn't make your any better of a mother than anyone else, I'm a stay at home mom and I believe I'm a great mother, I clean, cook, play with my kids, teach them, everything I'm supposed to, but I know working mom's who do the same, ...God bless
721057
Why shouldn't she be the head of the family?  Maybe her talents lie in organization and delegation of authority.  Ever thought of that?  \n\nHaving been raised Southern Baptist in the South, and having left the church long ago, I don't subscribe to the sexist notion that just because you have a penis, you get to be in control, and just because she has a vagina, she has to submit to that control.  What were cultural norms 5,000 to 6,000 years ago for a nomadic desert people don't work well and seem quite ridiculous in 21st century America.  People should do what they know how to do and what they are good at.  And let's face it, in 21st century America, thanks to feminism, humanism, the birth control pill and education, there are women out there who are good at taking the reins and being the boss.  \n\nIt's not a reflection on you as a person or you as a man if your wife is better at running the household than you are.  Why not just enjoy it?  Give up some of that patriarchal need for control, and let her do what she's good at.  Maybe she's good at balancing the checkbook, socking some money away for savings, and budgeting.  Maybe you're not so good at this.  It'd work in your favor to let her use her strengths for the good of your household.  \n\nIt takes a strong, confident person to be open-minded enough to put aside old habits and patterns of thinking.  One of those habits is gender stereotypes.  Men are not always strong, dominant, in control.  Women are not always weaker, passive, and docile.  We all have our strengths and talents as humans first.  \n\nGood luck with breaking out of old molds, and welcome to the 21st century. :)\n\nCheers, K
94407
It is definitely OK -- in fact, more than OK. If it works for you and your wife, and you are able to support your family that way, then more power to you! Don't listen to anyone who suggests that this will be harmful to your kids (or future kids, if you don't have them yet), or that it implies you are a lazy man, or that your wife is a soul-less, ambition-driven-only woman. Those ideas are very narrow-minded!\n\nThe thing is that individuals and situations vary greatly. Not all women prefer to do housework over working outside the home. Not all men want to work outside the home. I know several men who are better at domestic duties than I will ever be. I know women who would die of boredom if they are in the home all day, and whose potential is much better put to use in an office or in their careers. \n\nMy husband's dad was a stay-at-home father. At one point, he and my mother-in-law both worked. But when her career really took off, it became much more logical financially for her husband to tend to the house and the kids, instead of earning a lower salary and then paying for someone to help out with the house. This way, a parent was home with the kids, and my husband turned out wonderfully. He never witnessed sexism in the home. He grew up thinking that women and men are equal, he wasn't biased with any stereotypes, and it wasn't until he got to school that he learned that people thought girls were "weaker." In fact he always viewed women as the more powerful and intelligent of the sexes, ha! And, may I say that he is so hard-working and has a great career. His parents are also very happy and still together. They are two of the greatest people you could meet.\n\nI think it takes a very special couple to work out this kind of arrangement -- the man has to be very confident in his masculinity and his choices, and the woman has to be assured in her knowledge that her working outside the home doesn't make her any less of a woman. If this arrangement works for you, I think that's something to be proud of, not ashamed of!
818171
It's time for a woman to run the country. Women think differently than men, they use their brains instead of ........well, u know.
444485
because their F-lazy and don't give a dam and think their man will take care of everything, just don't care about anything\nexcept the ones that stay home take care of the kids and house until the kids go to school or a good stay at home wife and mother that cares about her family that is not a person like the above
930661
First of all, let me just say that all women do not complain about the life they chose or ask to get paid for being a housewife/stay at home mom. \n\nI don't agree with you that it is an easy job but you are right,it is just part of life. You are also right that it is not a new thing to give birth to a child.  It is, indeed, a normal thing.  \n\nJust remember when you go to get married that you are the one who is here pointing out that housework is just a necessary part of life and that birthing children is normal for women and it's not a new thing .... because you're wife may just be pointing out that earning a living is just a necessary part of life and providing for a family; making sure they have enough to eat, keeping them safe and providing shelter is not a new thing, it's what men were built for and they have been doing it for ages ....
691488
Yes, and maybe women should dominate the relationships, and go off to work leaving five men at home all day.  Somehow I don't think you would like that idea nearly so much.\n\nAny culture or religion that allows men to be in charge of women, especially in numbers, wants to keep women subservient to men and to keep them shut out of anything they could have any influence on.  They also tend to be much more tolerant of men physically and verbally abusing women.\n\nThe men in these relationships are happy because they are in total control and can have sex whenever they want to because if one woman isn't in the mood, another is bound to be.  The women are only contented because it is the only life they have ever known; it is how they are taught they are supposed to live, and they are never allowed to develop their intellects enough to consider that there might be other options.
325478
I don't dumb myself down.  I might not go around discussing heavy duty topics, though.  If they can't deal with a smart female, then too bad for them.  I think a real man wants a real woman, not a cherry pop-tart who has no brains or opinions.
597137
I have nothing against men but they will always think they are better then women they will always think that they can do more then a woman (BUT NOT ALL MEN ARE THIS WAY) but there is one thing a man will never ever be able to do have babies! Men usually don't like women making more then them and still most men believe a woman's place is at home in the kitchen and raising the kids there are not many men that can stay home or would stay home to raise the kids! But there are some. Women will always have to fight and stand up for their right's and what they believe in. So just do what you want in life and do your best! I think if your a well educated women and can do positive things for your society then do it! You will find your place and who knows what the future will bring some women have made it and one day we might have a woman president! We as women have to do the best we can in what most think is a mans world and teach are daughter's that they can be anything and do anything in life they want. That they don't have to just be home in the kitchen and raise babies. Even tho I did but that is all I wanted to do since I was a child myself! Go for your dreams and teach your daughters to go for theirs!