The Battle Ground of Feminism is the Home.
Because I don’t necessarily want to have that battle in my home today, I’ll stick with citing examples from FEMININE MISTAKE, THE: ARE WE GIVING UP TOO MUCH?, by Leslie Bennetts.
“This opt-out thing is about false choices,” says sociologist Barbara Risman. “If you’ve been raised thinking you can do everything, and your husband works eighty hours a week, and you work eighty hours a week, and he’s not willing to budge an inch, and you never see your chilren, so you opt-out – that’s not really opting out; that’s being pushed …read more

I hear mothers talk about how sacrifice is “worth it” for their kids. I especially hear this if mother’s have given up something valuable – economic independence, dreams, ambitions, time, goals, careers, autonomy, hobbies, interests, etc.
When did I – as a human being – lose my inherent value? Was it when I stopped being the child so worthy of my mother’s sacrifice? Or was it when I became the mother, expected to sacrifice everything for my children, and then say, “it’s worth it?” Or was it when I turned 18 and stopped being a legal child?
I’m just …read more

 Hillary is a name that inspires venom in many women I know.
It’s hard to fathom exactly why.
 She’s too ambitious.
But certainly she’s not more or less ambitious than any male presidential candidate. To run for president it’s necessary to be ambitious and certainly you don’t hope for an unambitious president.
She’s not a good role model.
In what sense? The current president is a recovering alcoholic and cocaine-user with a criminal record, but many religious people still voted for him and perceive him as a great role model. Hillary has a clean record, is as religious as any of the men running. It’s inconsistent.
The most baffling is when you …read more

Women are not made out of cookie cutters. I suspected this when as a child, I saw my role as a woman very carefully outlined, “Be a wife and a mother, your place is in the home.”
Not that I think that’s a bad place to find yourself at certain times in your life.
But, all women are not the same. My place is where I decide it is.
People just see things differently and it’s maturity that allows us to see that and respect it.
What I don’t like to see is women doing something they don’t want to be doing.
According to Pew Research Center …read more

 According to MomsRising, Today, the U.S. is one of only four countries that doesn’t have paid leave for new mothers. The others are Papua New Guinea, Swaziland and Liberia. We also lag behind in paid sick days and flexible work options so we can participate in our children’s schools and be at home before and after school hours.    
A full three-quarters of mothers are in the workforce, yet mothers are 79% less likely to be hired than non-mothers with equal resumes and job experiences. Single mothers make just 60 cents to a man’s dollar. 
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