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The media buzz about working mothers and their impact on children and society always makes me scratch my head. In what privileged universe have most mothers always had no income? That's what we're talking about, right - bringing home the rent money, keeping food on the table. My mother did it, both my grandmothers did it. Come to think of it, I can't think of a direct female ancestor who hasn't worked full time, although a few generations back it was on the farm, manual labor sun-up to sundown and beyond.
This has always been reality for women of color and women of lower socioeconomic classes.
How about us, Salon? Could you write about us for a change?
