What is the media’s obsession these days on whether or not celebrity moms (or any mom for that reason), breastfeeds? Every time a new celebrity has a baby, we are inundated with too much information about their personal decision on how they decided to feed their babies.

Heck, the website BreastFeeding.com even has a page dedicated to “famous breastfeeding moms.” My question is, who cares?
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Friday was Fair Pay Day, marking the day when women have finally earned enough money to equal how much money a man earned all of 2007. Yes, according to those who study the wage gap, the 23 cents women, on average, aren’t making compared to an average man, it takes us until April 18th to make up.

Of course the wage gap isn’t as cut and dry as just a mere 24 cents. Considering that most of the world is set up by a white male standard (don’t even pretend it isn’t, folks), let’s look at the wage gap for different women:

• African-American woman - 63 cents
• Latina woman - 52 cents

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I’ve Veronica and I’m a mom with a lot of issues. Every other week I’ll share some of them with you and I hope we have a great discussion. While I will focus my issues around the media’s portrayal of working moms, I won’t limit myself to that either.

My stance is that as a society we are all still adjusting to the idea of working mothers aka women who have small children and work outside the home, either part-time or full-time. Because our society moves at a snail’s pace in reacting to the rapid change that has happened, it confounds a lot of people, especially those in the media, about whether we are selfish or Superwomen. That said, the fact that every mother is a working mother also confounds people. What do you mean that cleaning and nurturing your child is work? That’s what you are built for right? Well, yes…and no.
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