Women between career and family ppt

Women between career and family
life

Many decades ago, women rarely went to work outside
their house. Instead, they usually stayed at home and did
the housework. Nowadays, women still play the role of a
housewife but more and more women, especially the
young ones, attend a school, get some training and
become a member of the national work force. There is no
doubt that it is not easy for any of them to have ‘two jobs’
at the same time – one at work and one at home. In other
words, it is almost impossible for them to be an ideal wife,
s devoted mother and a competent employee at the same
time. Therefore, it is quite often that they have to choose
between their career and their family life. The paper/this
essay is about the problems facing today’s women. These
problems are not easy to solve at all.

The women of the first type I would like to mention here
usually stay single. In other words, they may be successful
at work and earn enough money to support themselves
and even their relatives; however, they are considered as
the ones who lose, not win at all, in the battles for love, for
marriage and for the so-called ‘common’ life. They lead an
unusual life – the life of ‘a spinster’. Their society accepts
them for humanitarian reasons; but, to tell the truth, these
‘never-married’ women have never been accepted
emotionally. And this is my own destiny.

Those of the second type face their own problems: they
have to depend on their husband financially, and almost

certainly they suffer from the lack of up-to-date pieces of
information on social life, competition at work, recent
changes and reforms in community, etc. All of these
prevent them from being a hearty friend, an attractive lover
or a reliable comrade. In other words, in spite of their
devotion to bringing up their children, taking great care of
their husband and doing almost all of the housework,
these ideal housewives are still in danger of failing to go
along with their husband and of being betrayed
emotionally and even sexually. Some of my former friends
at high school are nothing but the second-class citizens
both in the society and right in their household.

The women of the third type are both lucky and unlucky in
their own ways. On the one hand, they are lucky enough
to get married and to be able to give birth to at least one
child. In addition, they do not belong to the ‘unemployed’
or the so-called ‘housekeepers’. Together with their
husband and child(ren), they can build up a common life
that all human beings have ever been aiming at and
dreaming of. On the other hand, they suffer from doing two
jobs simultaneously. It is extremely painful for any woman
to combine her successful married life to her established
professional career. My elder sister is a typical example of
the third type of women. She has almost no time even to
sleep! And sometimes I wonder whether it is worth it.

The eighth of March is famous as a day for all the women
in the world in general and in Vietnam in particular. That
special day contributes to reminding anybody of the real

problems facing today’s women. Although we, as women,
have been trying our best with what we have in life, we do
need some more help and great sympathy form you –
those who belong to ‘the fraternal world.’