Mothers under stress
Fifty years after The Feminine Mystique, women are facing another crisis in identity: themotherhoodmystique.So posits the Doc Zone presentation The Motherload, a revealing look at the pressures that stymie modern working moms.
“Women are equal in school, equal going into the workforce, and then there’s an enormous fall-off, and it’s generally around having children,” says Anne-Marie Slaughter, at one time an adviser to former U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton.
In 2011, Slaughter quit her job to pursue a better worklife balance and wrote the article Why Women Still Can’t Have it All for The Atlantic Magazine. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg also discusses the tug of war between the demands of work and her children.
The facts are sobering: 70 per cent of women with children under age six work outside the home. In one study, women who had taken at least three years of maternity leave earned about 30 per cent less than those without kids. (CBC — 9 p.m.)
Parks and Recreation returns with its 100th episode, in which Leslie (Amy Poehler) plots to get back onto the Pawnee city council. (NBC, City — 9:30 p.m.)
Saving Hope netted 1.5 million Canadians last week with Part 1 of its winter première. In Part 2, Alex risks a dangerous surgery to save a boy’s life. (CTV — 10 p.m.) 1
Paul Sorvino guest-stars as a suspected Mafia boss on Elementary. (Global — 8 p.m., CBS — 11 p.m.)