This chapter explores the questions using qualitative data gathered from thirty women of Mexican descent in the United States, both native, born Chicanas and resident immigrant Mexicanas. It illustrates that notions of motherhood for Chicanas and Mexicanas are embedded in different ideological constructs operating within systems of patriarchy. The chapter presents the expectations of acculturation models, Mexicanas frame motherhood in ways that foster a more consistent labor market presence than do Chicanas. It argues that this distinction, typically bypassed in the sociological literature on motherhood, women and work, or Chicano Studies, is rooted in their dissimilar social locations, that is, the 'social spaces' they engage within the social structure created by the intersection of class, race, gender, and culture. The chapter discusses the need to recast current conceptualizations of the dilemma between motherhood and employment to reflect women's different social locations.