Monday, December 3, 2007
Times have definitely changed
If anyone says nothing much has changed, show them this piece and tell them about Airman 1st Class Vanessa Dobos.
When I was a young woman I chafed under the thumb screws of two choices: "be a housewife" or "be a hard-nosed working woman" and that was "long ago" in the seventies. I totally believed that women should be able to choose what they (we) want to do - all the way from staying home to being prime minister to combining pieces of everything. People usually smiled at me condescendingly and patiently. A few championed my ideas. A few even urged activism. Nowadays, young women pretty much know they can do whatever they want although they have a fairy realistic picture about the fact that some "having it all" may have to be sequential rather than simultaneous.
In any case, bravo a million times over for Vanessa Dobos. Doing what you want to do is really what it's all about.
When I was a young woman I chafed under the thumb screws of two choices: "be a housewife" or "be a hard-nosed working woman" and that was "long ago" in the seventies. I totally believed that women should be able to choose what they (we) want to do - all the way from staying home to being prime minister to combining pieces of everything. People usually smiled at me condescendingly and patiently. A few championed my ideas. A few even urged activism. Nowadays, young women pretty much know they can do whatever they want although they have a fairy realistic picture about the fact that some "having it all" may have to be sequential rather than simultaneous.
In any case, bravo a million times over for Vanessa Dobos. Doing what you want to do is really what it's all about.
Labels: about me, modern culture, women
But, what is a "fairy realistic picture"? :-)
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