{"id":117944,"date":"2018-10-24T10:04:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T14:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=117944"},"modified":"2018-10-24T10:04:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T14:04:40","slug":"milex-milk-president-moms-should-stay-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/10\/24\/milex-milk-president-moms-should-stay-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Milex milk president: Moms should stay home"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_117913\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-117913\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-117913\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Raul-Rizik-Hoy-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-117913\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ra\u00fal Rizik \/ Hoy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The statement by Raul Rizik, president of Mej\u00eda Arcal\u00e1, the company that imports the best-selling Milex powdered milk, may cost the company sales to tell by the reactions on social media. In a recent talk on occasion of the National Retailers\u2019 Day, Rizik called for strengthening the family to in turn strengthen Dominican society. In his talk, \u201cFamily Values in the Development of Commerce,\u201d he stressed the family is the fundamental unit of society and has been weakened since women began working outside the home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That was stated by the United Nations in 1948, but in 1995, it was promoted that women leave the homes to work in businesses or in government, which was a tremendous mistake, since this has been displacing motherhood, without thinking about the consequences that this radical change would bring to homes and how it would disrupt the course of society, when its citizens would lack the essential formation of the nuclear family,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The criticism to working women was not met well in social media, with many Dominican women blasting the lead executive of the powdered milk company.<\/p>\n<p>An editorial in Diario Libre by managing editor Ines Aizpun argues that women work for the same reasons as men do \u2013 they need the money, they like their work\u2026 \u201cTo say out loud, in public, that women should stay at home is almost a punk manifesto,\u201d she observed.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/hoy.com.do\/dice-fue-error-sacar-mujeres-de-hogar-y-entraran-a-negocios\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hoy<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/opinion\/am\/por-que-trabajan-las-mujeres-fuera-de-casa-II11083685\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diario Libre<\/a><\/p>\n<p>24 October 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The statement by Raul Rizik, president of Mej\u00eda Arcal\u00e1, the company that imports the best-selling Milex powdered milk, may cost the company sales to tell by the reactions on social media. In a recent talk on occasion of the National Retailers\u2019 Day, Rizik called for strengthening the family to in turn strengthen Dominican society. In &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/10\/24\/milex-milk-president-moms-should-stay-home\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}