The media praise middle-class mothers who leave the workplace to stay home with their children. This is an example of the:

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The media's praise of middle-class mothers who leave the workplace to stay home with their children is an example of the new momism. The new momism is the societal and media pressure on contemporary mothers to be perfect parents by devoting themselves to their children, while dismissing the challenges of balancing work and family life. This pressure reinforces traditional gender roles by emphasizing women's caretaking abilities, glorifying stay-at-home motherhood, and devaluing paid work outside the home. The matriarch stereotype and superwoman stereotype are not relevant to this scenario. The sex-role spillover hypothesis refers to the idea that gender expectations from one domain (e.g., work) spill over into another domain (e.g., family) and affect behavior and attitudes in that domain, but it does not apply specifically to this situation.

The Media Praise Middle-Class Mothers Who Leave the Workplace to Stay