{"id":1550,"date":"2010-03-18T20:48:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T02:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/?p=1550"},"modified":"2010-03-18T20:51:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T02:51:59","slug":"moms-craft-for-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2010\/03\/18\/moms-craft-for-cash\/","title":{"rendered":"moms craft for cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"img-link\" title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by Ritzee Rebel on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/47110590@N08\/4430082145\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4026\/4430082145_5208066900_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"California Girls\" \/><\/a>More stay-at-home moms in the U.S. are going into business for themselves, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE62G40620100317?type=smallBusinessNews\">Reuters<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Small Business Administration says the number of self-employed women around the country jumped by 10 percent from 2000 to 2006, to 5.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>For Lewis, an online marketplace called Etsy provided a place to sell her estate-style and faux vintage pieces. The website, www.etsy.com, lets craft makers set up their own virtual shops. It currently has more than 4.2 million users.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s wonderful to be able to call my own shots,&#8221; Lewis said. &#8220;I can work at night, so if I want to do something with my family, I can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Launched in 2005, the Brooklyn, New York-based Etsy now has more than 400,000 sellers, most of whom are women, and posted more than $180 million in sales last year. Nearly 70 percent of sellers are college-educated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Moms cite balance and flexibility as reasons to start their own online craft shops. A sociologist comments on the trend:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Women are looking to both work and take care of families, but the traditional workplace doesn&#8217;t provide that opportunity, so they are looking for their own ingenious ways (to do that),&#8221; said Pamela Stone, a sociology professor at New York City&#8217;s Hunter College.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What women are seeking is flexibility and these companies are providing them with this option,&#8221; said Stone, who wrote &#8220;Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More stay-at-home moms in the U.S. are going into business for themselves, Reuters reports: The Small Business Administration says the number of self-employed women around the country jumped by 10 percent from 2000 to 2006, to 5.3 million. For Lewis, an online marketplace called Etsy provided a place to sell her estate-style and faux vintage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[70,39114,104,117,76],"class_list":["post-1550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-family","tag-gender","tag-income","tag-trends","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1554,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions\/1554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}