Compulsory Hiring of Middle Age Moms of Minors Must Become A Law

Nowhere in the timeline of the country have there been so much bias, than here from the onset of pandemic.

                                            

The Absence of Women Empowerment Paved Way for Joblessness and Bias.

                                            

When a woman tows along a kid to a microloan company as a necessity, as a mother of a minor, there lies a social problem that has not been met. 

The middle-age moms who have decided to give preference for home duties hoping that there would be the most ideal job for her while being a mom, has been financially-abused and outcasted by a "supposedly" responsible and able society that minds the future of it's women with children.

There cannot be a better time to discuss this at the forefront of happenings than the post-pandemic realities that have floated all the unspoken needs of women that remain unmet, by a society that is moreso fixated on popularity and self-serving propaganda.

The middle-aged mothers of minors of recent years have not been given equal chances to employment. 

But these are not openly discussed for as long as there are OFWs or Overseas Filipino Workers who are willing to bear the brunt of responsibility just because its home country cannot give ample employment to its own.

The middle-aged moms  of minors are those who wait and wait,  tend silently, going about their micro homebased ventures that do not promise hope but more loans and bias against them.

In local shores, there is a current bias against middle-aged women in terms of employment and access to business opportunities, like micro insurances and loans that have the tendency to disenfranchise older women faced with scarce opportunities from big and landed companies.

Back in the nineties to the early turn of the 2000s era, the latest age that a woman can be hired for employment is 35, and many employers validated this as an age that is already "too old"  to hire.

That cannot be more true now as the pandemic punctuated the helplessness of middle-age women who are not given equal access to work in decent offices.

To put it bluntly, offices and businesses with the capacity to hire women regardless of civil status and age , have not only positioned a well-guarded bias going against women, but also a stringent stereotype for a hiring requirement that gives chances only to the cinched-waist women or those who can flaunt their pretty faces.

These apparent standard has not been set aside despite the need of middle-aged moms to provide, or supplement the family income.

Jobless moms who have the reputation for being "jobless" are considered locally as an outcast, less smart, or "dumb" even.  

They are also often shown disrespectful  attitudes or ridiculed  by regular employees, who have the tendency to  condescend their own customers. 

Locals brag about their job status, pointing to it as a position of advantage, not just economically but reputation-wise, and  considers being fully-employed more ideal than that of being a housewife.

Thus, the ideal setting that is being fought for by women in their middle age, that of caring for their minor child/children in the Philippines can be considered a career suicide among women.

The bias that confronts housewives who are not only domesticated but also with professional education to match their age, does not give assurance of a better future for the children in the country.

With it's static employment  availability, only the beautiful and the well-connected go to work, as older women are left on the home  ground, with dreams unfulfilled  for intelligent women, who are raring for inclusivity. 

As it seems, many middle-age women have been deprived of job opportunities that can feed their little ones, making them dependent of a social structure that permeates  bias against older women.

So when you see a mom next time desperate to find means to give decency of home life to their kids, ask yourself:  "what have you done in your capacity to make it fair for the work forgotten moms?".

It's about time that we as a nation mutate into maturity, and make the hiring of middle-age women, a legal obligation for the employers in the country.

NFR commentary.

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