Domestic Artistry
Glorifying God in the Home
Amy Boucher Pye
January 1, 1998
"To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labor, and holidays; to be Whitely within a certain area, providing toys, boots, sheets, cakes and books; to be Aristotle within a certain area, teaching morals, manners, theology and hygiene: I can understand why this might exhaust the mind, but I cannot understand how it could narrow it. How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three [Rs] and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone? No; a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute." —G. K. Chesterton, 1905 More and more women from our generation are rejecting the career path trod by Boomers and instead choosing to stay home with their children. For the first time in thirty years, Fortune magazine recently reported, the number of women in the workforce between the ages of twenty-four and thirty-five is declining. "Female big quitters," such as Diana Baker, former cfo of the New York Times and Brenda Barnes, former president of PepsiCo North America, are making headlines as they leave high-flying careers to spend more time with their children. What motivates these mothers to leave paychecks and professions for a life that can include mopping up crumbs and changing dirty diapers? Seeking the underlying motives for this trend, I caught a few moments in the lives of a dozen Christian women, Protestant and Catholic, who have opted for string cheese and bologna over power lunches. Between twenty-five and forty-odd years old, some are new mothers; others are more seasoned moms with large families. Despite their differences, ...
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