Do women prefer to work or stay at home?

Before, a home was a woman’s place where she worked and took care of her kids. But in recent decades, since many career women and working mothers have stamped their mark in the corporate world, many more women have climbed high on the corporate ladder. Many young and aspiring women are also vying to make the most of their career. 

On the other side of the coin, there are also quite a number of women who wish to be home-makers. I would say the women in this category largely are new mothers who long to spend time with and watch their kids’ growing years intimately. 

I’ve experienced both of these phases and I’m at the stage right now where nothing beats realising my dream of becoming a stay at home mom (SAHM). My definition of staying at home, however, is not solely restricted to performing the household chores and caring for the kids. More specifically, I would like to be a work-from-home-mom. But I suspect that when I actually am a work at home mom, I would likely be gallivanting with my kids all day long, bringing them out to have a time of their lives (not to mention my share of the fun too!). 

Whilst the challenge of a career has brought about much satisfaction, confidence, great friendship and intellectual stimulations to life, I now have a different perspective and sense of wanting to spend more family time with loved ones. I’ve spoken to many moms, both the working ones and the ones I consider lucky enough to spend all their time home with their kids. Both sides offer differing views. It’s actually the case of the grass being greener on the other side of the fence.

Mothers who are at work like me, want very much to be able to quit from their jobs to be with their kids. Mothers who are actually home with their kids feel that they are better off at work. Many stay-at-home-moms have shared that taking a break from the rat race to watch their kids grow into beautiful personalities is rewarding, but there’s only so much that they can take staying away from the real adult world. Many have gone back to their working life after a couple of years staying home, and they have found the working world a refreshing change afterwards.

We women must be quite a confused bunch. We want to stay home with the kids and yet after some years, we decide that we’ve had enough and that having more serious adult conversations at work will do us more good in our wellbeing. So what is it that we truly want, to work or be home with the kids?

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