Also in the pulse
Katie Allison Granju has a new essay in the Metro Pulse that's worth reading.
But as pleased as I am with my work-family balance, I sometimes wonder if by structuring my days primarily around my children's schedules rather than an employer's time clock, I am betraying the sacrifices and hard work of the previous two generations of women who paved the way so that I could pursue a professional life. I mean, did Sandra Day O'Connor, Geraldine Ferraro, and even my own grandmother and mother, highly successful journalists who blazed their own trails, work as hard as they did just so that I wouldn't be too tired after a long day at the office to read bedtime stories to my toddler? I have decided that they did.Feminism is all about the power to choose. Half a century ago, it is likely that my current stay-at-home status wouldn't have been mine to accept or reject. Instead it simply would have been the way it was.
Now that's a feminism I can agree with. Both choices are validated.
Posted by Rich at September 19, 2002 1:30 PM