Motherism – a prejudice as entrenched as racism and sexism?

This article in the Daily Heil suggested ‘motherism’ as a prejudice is as entrenched as racism, and sexism.

As a stay-at-home mother, I felt the least empowered I have EVER felt in my life. But why? Society doesn’t value mothering as an activity, because it is the only ‘job’ that we are expected to do for nothing, from ‘alturism’ or because we are evolved to care,  or worse, ‘because it is the right thing to do’. Caring  of all sorts, including parental care of children needs to be given a monetary value for it to become a respected and worthwhile ‘profession’.

On a separate note,  the lack of value attached to caring may be why care homes are having to be monitored for abuse. If ‘carers’ are not ‘valued’ by being paid well, the market won’t  attract ‘carers’ who are paid well enough to actually ‘care’. Like everything else, we shouldn’t just rely on human altruism, and ‘being nice’.

Caring of all sorts needs to be backed up by hard cash to really garner any respect from society, and thus attract people who are capable of doing the job, that quite rightly, many people, including people’s own families, would rather not do because ‘love’ someone or not, cleaning up their shit and feeding them mush is not as attractive a prospect of doing a job that you get paid for.