I get the point, but....

I don't know what to make of things like the following excerpt from an article I read today.  I get the jist of something like this -- women's contributions aren't acknowledged or truely valued.  But I think its a bit of a stretch to count CEO and psychologist as a mother's "job" -- keeping track of the finances/operations/schedules of a family (even one with lots of kids), is the equvelent of being a middle-manager, not a CEO.  And, making sure your kid is emotionally healthy and can communicate to you when they are having troubles is just a part of parenting, just like discipline, why does that get a seperate "job" status?  They include doing laundry in one of the jobs, but nothing having to do with cooking, which I would think would take up more hours.  I just don't feel like there's any value to something like this "study".  Maybe I will feel differently when I am an exhausted mother trying to juggle a household and my career, but for now, I think this is a bit ridiculous!

If the typical stay-at-home mother in the United States were paid for her work as a housekeeper, cook and psychologist among other roles, she would earn $138,095 a year, according to research released on Wednesday. The 10 jobs listed as comprising a mother's work were housekeeper, cook, day care center teacher, laundry machine operator, van driver, facilities manager, janitor, computer operator, chief executive officer and psychologist, it said.  The typical mother puts in a 92-hour work week, it said, working 40 hours at base pay and 52 hours overtime.  A mother who holds full-time job outside the home would earn an additional $85,939 for the work she does at home, Salary.com.