The Legendary iconic image of a lady in a blue uniform with a red polka dot bandana showing "WE CAN DO IT" attitude has transformed "baking cookies ladies" into a career pursuer women.
Our feminist foremother believed we could have it all. We could earn the loving wives, caring mothers and kick-arse bosses titles.
They promise women power through work, equality through economic equity, and put an end to the traditional idea of male as a breadwinner.
For a while, it really did sail smoothly. They seem as if they had it all. But the truth is do they really have it all?
Women often think that working outside the house is a nirvana. They have been influenced by the media to fantasize the Sex And the City drive to put career and friendship first but stable relationship last.
Well, the choice is yours, but when children arrive, the ideal dream of beautiful and successful life will soon be vanished.
The idea of wife supporting husband as the princpal earner is not just some patriarchal bargain. In fact, it is a practical of labour.
How can a family with two people working properly nurture their children?
But times are changing now. There is a shift from the societies to pull women from a ‘career pursuer’ back into the ‘modest housewives’.
New studies recently shows that there are less women at the highest levels of the major professions but there are increasing numbers of women say they would rather stay at home than work.
One of the world leading examples that ire the feminists’ ideology is Michelle Obama. She is the First Lady to devote herself to her two beloved young daughters and husband who is the first black president of the United States.
Michelle Obama graduated from prestigious university like Princeton and Harvad. Plus, she had a great career that every women dream of. But, for the frist time in her life, she decides to step off from her priceless career.
It is not an easy decision for her to make to just leave her career behind and being homebound and neither do professional women with families too.
What’s wrong with women stepping off from their career and put family first? Being a housewife is not a bad option after all. Being a good wife is about being a true equal partner in a family project.
Equal status for women does not always have to be related to equal privileges and equal values throughout the patriarchy society but is about being a great compromiser wita a good team work effort in a family.
It means giving advice, having opinion respected and having shared values and a shared moral outlook.
Groucho Marx has cleverly quote "Behind every succesful man is a woman, behind her is his wife."
In anyway, this quotation can’t go wrong, so ladies! Put your hands up! You deserve it, and the quote absolutely belongs to you.
Buidling a decent family is not an easy way out. It takes a massive foundation of love, trust and responsibilities to produce one.
Children, especially need parents as a vital role for the development of their souls. There is no point of earning huge amount of cash but when it comes to children, they know nothing about them.
Parents can’t just provide a substitute guardian like a nanny for their children to be taken care of. The amount of dignity that nanny provides can never replace that of their own parents.
What children will be in the future depends from the early childhood education provided by their parents.
At the end of the day, family is the most important thing, nothing else matters.
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