The Work
“Too much life enters this house,” Tillie Olsen, the writer, labor activist and mother of four girls, wrote in a letter to the poet Anne Sexton. “Up at 6, breakfast in shifts, lunch packing — then, if no one ill, or it isn’t a holiday, or any of the other ORs, the day for work until 4, sometimes longer or an evening — depending on housework load, s... See more
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realized that my mum and dad had met at university, had both obtained degrees, and yet my mum had not had a job since she married my dad.
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In the more developed countries, the gender inequities that exist in the workplace show up starkly and shockingly around money. The same can be said for divorce settlements and attitudes toward traditional work performed by women, like nursing and teaching, how those are poorly rewarded despite the critical part they play in our culture. It plays o
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To survive these conditions, women have had to become as Athena was, aligned with her father in order to thrive. But the consequence of being a ‘good daughter’ or a ‘good mother’ is that the darkness, represented by Medusa’s banished fury, will rise up in unpredictable ways. Have you ever noticed in fairy tales how often the protagonist’s mother is
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