The "Mommy Track" Debate
As more and more women continue to move into the workplace, hot debate has arisen surrounding the issues of work and family balance. Many female managers and professionals with young families are leaving the fast track for what has become known as the “mommy track.” Today, as young people are applying for jobs, many now take into consideration a company’s values of a work and life balance. Some say that the pressures of maternity are becoming an obstacle for many women who wish to continue their climb up the corporate ladder. Often times when women become pregnant, they are forced to abandon their careers. Therefore, the following question has aroused many controversial arguments: can women obtain high standards of success in their careers and maintain the best possible home life?
These debates have generated a new term referred to as the “mommy track.” The “mommy track” is a new option many employers have for working women to consider. It involves making the switch from working full time to a career path calling for part-time employment, allowing for more time to be spent at home with the children. Today, many large corporations are considering implementing “mommy track” option.
There are conflicting viewpoints involving the “mommy track.” Supporters of the track claim that women cannot make it to the top of their prospective career fields and be the primary focus in their children’s lives. They say a “mommy track” would allow these women to maintain their careers while playing a vitally important role at home. Those opposed to the creation of a “mommy track” claim that it is separate and unequal, permanently derailing women’s careers, making them ...
... middle of paper ...
...nd, the opponents successfully reached their targeted audience, acknowledged the opposition and built a strong emotional appeal, established effective credibility, and composed a logical and successful argument. One thing is for certain; the “mommy track” is an issue that many will have to decide upon as one begins contributing to their workplace.
Works Cited:
Ball, Colleen D. “Victims of the ‘Mommy Track.’” ABA Journal October 1998: 84.
Hall, Douglas T. “Moving beyond the ‘Mommy Track’: an organization approach.” Personnel 66.12 (1989): 23-29.
Schwartz, Felice N.”Management Women and the New Facts of Life.” Harvard Business Review Jan.-Feb. 1999: 3-14.
Snell, M.B. “Carrerus Interruptus.” NPQ: New Perspectives Quarterly 7.1 (1990): 16-19.
Stracher, Cameron. “All Aboard The Mommy Track.” The American Lawyer March 1999: 126-128.
Dublin, Thomas. Women at Work. 1979, Columbia University Press, New York. p. 87
At what point does work life start interfering with family life to an extent that it becomes unacceptable? Is it when you don’t get to spend as much time with your family as you would like, or is it the point where you barely get to see your family due to long hours at work? Is it even possible to balance work with family life? Anne-Marie Slaughter, the author of “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All”, believes this balance is impossible to achieve in this day and age. In contrast, Richard Dorment, the author of “Why Men Still Can’t Have It All”, believes that there will never be a day when someone will have it all, certain sacrifices will always have to be made. Both of these articles are similar in the respect that they both examine balancing a demanding career with raising children. The two authors’ views on the subject differ greatly, especially regarding how gender roles have a significant impact on our society.
A debate has been raging for years over the necessity for, mother’s duties, which has been so much so that it is termed “Mommy Wars”. The core of “Mommy Wars” is about mothers should wave rights of studying and working to take care of children at home and be a housewife. Traditionally, mothers must be a full-time mother when they raise a baby. However, by the development of society and the movements for women’s rights, this issue has been increasingly a hot topic for the discussion. For this reason, Louise Story interviewed students and faculties at Yale University.
“…in the next few years, humanity's going to go through a shift… We're going to start putting an entire layer of digital information on the real world” (Gribetz, 2016). In his recent TED Talk,” Meron Gribetz encourages his audience to consider how such technology could transform the reality that we call the human experience by referencing augmented reality (Gribetz, 2016). Until the summer of 2016, augmented reality did not have a recognizable role in our lives. Then, came Pokémon Go, a game that gave many people their first notable, combined experiences of augmented reality and telepresence on their smartphones.
...d had no evidence to back them up. With interviews, Ranson (2005) provided views from different women, but by using a small sample size the opinions still appeared to be biased. She also solely focused on the effect children would have on the women’s careers but failed to mention the financial penalties children would have on the women as well. This review considered the strengths and limitations of stating that motherhood is barrier to women’s careers, critiqued the methodology of the article and stated different approaches the author could have taken.
Augmented Reality(AR) is the technology which integrates virtual objects with the real world by superimposing Virtuality in real environment. Azuma properly defines Augmented Reality as a variation of Virtual Reality. As Virtual Reality completely involves a user into virtual environment, however one cannot see the real world surrounding him. Whereas, AR allows users to experience the real world with virtual objects super imposed on them. Instead of replacing reality, AR advocates it (Kaufmann 2003). The very first Augmented Reality interface had been developed by Sutherland in 1960’s (Zhou et al. 2008). In recent years Augmented Reality has been marking its popularity very well. The same trend has been observed in the research articles reviewed in the research.
I chose this project because when I grow up I want to become a nurse, so volunteering at OVMC was a great opportunity. There was a health fair last year at the school; I met these two nice women that asked me I would like to volunteer at the hospital, and I told them I would love too. When my family and I talked about it, we all seemed like we were on the same page about it and then we filled them out and sent them in the mail the next morning. I got a call a couple of days later to come in for an interview. Another reason I chose to do this project is because I needed to reach my amount of hours for HSTA. Halfway through the summer break, I reached my hours that I had left to do, but I loved volunteering there. I still had next summer and the school year to complete my hours; I had so much fun going there!
The story of augmented reality goes back as far as the early 1900’s when L. Frank Baum wrote the “novel The Master Key. Printed in 1901, the book mentions a “character marker” set of electronic spectacles that when you view someone through them would show a letter on that person’s forehead regarding their character.” However, the first invention to use some type of augmented reality would not come along till 1968 and Ivan E. Sutherland and his head mounted three dimensional display. “The fundamental idea behind the three-dimensional display is to present the user with a perspective image which changes as he moves.” This would allow for an illusion of 3D on a 2D plane. This however, wasn’t true augmented reality; yes this augmented what you see on a screen and gave an illusion of 3 dimensions, but it does not overlay actual reality with com...
Augmented Reality (AR) is a real time direct or indirect view of the physical real world that is enhanced or augmented with computer generated information. AR is both interactive and registered in 3D, combining real and virtual objects. AR enhances a user’s perception of the real world and the way they interact with it. The augmented Reality’s main purpose is simplifying the user’s life, by bringing virtual information to their immediate surroundings through an indirect view of the real-world environment. Although augmented reality is like Virtual reality (VR), AR is an enhanced view of the real world, where VR is a pure virtual environment.
In this age of change, the international financial is progressing promptly on various fronts, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) play a pivotal role in international financial system. Yet at the same time, many criticisms point out that IMF are not efficient enough to react to settle the problems that have accompanied with this trend. This issue has drawn widespread attention in recent decades. This essay will give an overview about what the IMF it is first, and then put forward by some examples that what kind of role the IMF has done to address financial issues, good or bad. Finally, this essay will propose some solutions about the IMF how could it be more useful to solve the financial crisis.
2012, Volvo, for the release of the S60, decided to target a younger demographic. They created a YouTube masthead that allowed users to “play the Augmented Reality Driving Game with their phones using the current environment of the user” [2]. This meant that users could drive a car set in a map that mirrored the environment of, say, their office building, but on their mobile phones! Hence, it allowed users to use augmented r...
This research looks into the potential of augmented reality and more specifically spatial augmented reality. The purpose of this paper is to give the reader an understanding of what as well as where augmented reality has come from and how it is being used today. The paper will examine into different examples of augmented reality and how the term is not specific to a certain technology.
Augmented Reality (AR)/Virtual Reality (VR) . AR is generally used to refer to a live, real world environment, augmented with additional video and/or data. Since the success of Pokémon Go, an AR game where computer-generated characters appear on a mobile device screen as if they’re in the real world, exploded with over 100 million downloads, Hollywood has been exploring the technology's potential for storytelling. But AR could soon move beyond a phone, since headsets, glasses and even contact lenses with AR capabilities are in development. Many are exploring the potential to offer new types of immersive, interactive stories or games -- imagine taking elements of the Star Wars universe
The ability to superimpose real-time computer animation onto the real world is commonly known as augmented reality (AR). AR differs from virtual reality where it requires the real time markers for it to function. It allows merging of virtual information with the real environment to provide users with more immersive interaction with their surroundings. AR provides new experience of the real world that is unlike another computer animation that draws the users away from the real world and onto the screen (Hainich & Rolf, 2006).
Juniper Research has concluded that there will be a rapid progression which will be consistent for smartphones that will be capable of handling augmented reality applications. Total Immersion, which is one of the AR solution inventor, expressed their views on this and were very positive about augmented reality in becoming an integral part on mobile devices (Total Immersion, 2011).