ity. Significant too, is the fact that daughtersof working mother’s tend to be more decisive about theirfutures than sons. Further studies have demonstrated that amother’s employment status and occupation tends to be a goodpredictor of the outcome of the working mother’s daughter,since daughters tend to follow in their mother’s footsteps.Typically, working mothers held higher educationalaspirations for their children and furthermore, mostdaughters tend to achieve higher grades in school. (Spitz606) It is also important to note that both male and femalechildren acquire more egalitarian sex role attitudes whenboth parents work. Boys with working mothers showed bettersocial and personal skills than boys of non-working mothers.On a negative note, middle-class boys tend to do worse inschool when their mothers worked. (Shreve 118) As well, boyswhose mothers work tend to have strained relationships withtheir fathers due to their perceptive devaluation of theirfather’s worth as an adequate bread-winner. (Adele 32) Onecan conclude that males may be negatively affected whentheir mothers work, but males and, to a greater degree,females are affected in many positive ways with regards toachievement in independence and responsibility. Adequatechild care is a necessity for parents who both work. It isoften complicated to balance both the parent’s and child’sneeds when using child care. However, it may be possible tosatisfy the demands of both if forethought and prudence areapplied. Many cultures worldwide realize that a child’snurturing can be acquired from a variety of sourcesincluding both adults and older children. Children can be ascomfortable with grandparents, neighbors, professional childcare attendants, and babysitters as they are with their ownmothers. In fact, a variety of sources for nurturing notonly provide the child with a variety of role models, suchas in the case of grandparents, but it a...
