{"id":19454,"date":"2010-01-29T10:57:35","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T15:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=19454"},"modified":"2013-12-15T04:21:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T09:21:13","slug":"mothers-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/01\/29\/mothers-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Mother&#8217;s Hours&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine L. sent in <a href=\"http:\/\/ruraldisaster.tumblr.com\/post\/315177416\/someone-explain-this\" target=\"_blank\">the following picture<\/a> of a (gramatically incorrect?)\u00a0ad in the window of a sportings good store in Wellesly, MA:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/01\/29\/mothers-hours\/tumblr_kvoxomsmvm1qzaffeo1_400\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19456\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19456\" title=\"tumblr_kvoxomsMVm1qzaffeo1_400\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/01\/tumblr_kvoxomsMVm1qzaffeo1_400.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mothers&#8217; hours&#8221; refers to those hours during which kids are in school.\u00a0 The term reveals the assumption, or prescription, that it is women who take care of kids after school.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, that a company is offering work to primary caretakers is actually quite nice and supportive of families.\u00a0 But it would be entirely easy to instead say &#8220;parents&#8217; hours&#8221; instead.\u00a0 Still, it&#8217;s possible that employers would be suspicious of any man who wanted to work only part time and assume they were both bad fathers and bad workers.\u00a0 Employers are known to discriminate against men who do not put their job before their family.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine L. sent in the following picture of a (gramatically incorrect?)\u00a0ad in the window of a sportings good store in Wellesly, MA: &#8220;Mothers&#8217; hours&#8221; refers to those hours during which kids are in school.\u00a0 The term reveals the assumption, or prescription, that it is women who take care of kids after school. Of course, that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,2088,293,76],"class_list":["post-19454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-gender-marriagefamily","tag-social-construction","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19454"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60510,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19454\/revisions\/60510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}