BERLINER MORGENPOST
Berlin (ots)
A flower on the breakfast table, a little handicraft from the day care center, children who voluntarily empty the dishwasher – honestly: what mother isn’t happy about that? It’s a bit of attention and appreciation from the people you love. And there is often just a little too little of that in everyday life.
In this respect, there is nothing to be said against Mother’s Day. But organized appreciation on a single day a year? What about the other 364 days when mothers have to balance work and family? After all, caring for the children still rests disproportionately on their shoulders. Even if there have been improvements here and there in recent years, we are unfortunately still a long way from real equality in Germany. It is still primarily the mothers who take the greater part of parental leave, who stay at home when the child is ill. Much more often than fathers, they work part-time and therefore forego a career. In far too many professions, women – and especially mothers – are paid less than their male colleagues. And they are less likely to get into top positions in business and politics.
So flowers and handicrafts are beautiful, very beautiful in fact. But what moms really need is a real appreciation for what they do every day. In other words, structures that support them, bosses that encourage them and families in which the tasks are divided fairly fairly. If we ever get there, every day is Mother’s Day.
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