How Moms Use Their iPhones November 3, 2009 Lauren Because mothers are more than their children or grocery shopping habits, I’d imagine they tend to check their email, conduct business, and make phone calls too. Was that on the survey?
I was working on a thought that this was a good lead-in for: about what I see as an overarching phenomenon that encompasses the whore-madonna complex, moms in the workplace and a bunch of other particular dynamics: a persistent refusal to see women as whole, multifaceted people; an insistence that a woman with many sides of herself is somehow failing at all of them, while we expect and encourage men to be complete and well-rounded people.