And I’m not talking about ‘Britain’s got talent’.
I mean professional women, women who had a career prior to children, are wasting the best years of our lives tending to our children’s every need, worrying about their education, playdates, summer activities, their diet, their special needs. We were told we could have it all. Get a degree, a post grad qualification, a career. Only to find it all stalls and stutters to a halt. At best, part time teaching, or GP. I have professionally qualified friends who take cleaning and dog sitting work. How do you run a household, marriage and children and a career all at once?
Ladies, you don’t have it all, you have all the work.
Hmm. While I have to agree that it will *tend* to be ladies who end up in this regrettable position, it is not always so. I have known talented men in similar positions.
It would be nice to think that each couple discusses it rationally and comes to its own decision based upon its onw situation, needs and preferences. But I suspect there’s a lot of assuming going on from the beginning in many relationships. However, this is not *necessarily* oppressive in each case. I do know girls who, however odd it sounds to me, go to university to study for its own sake, intending simply to marry, have children and not work for money. I wonder how they track down the men to take them on!