sex versus success

[wasabi_poptart]

Excellent NYT article courtesy of alero

What's a Modern Girl to Do?

(too long to repost; use www.bugmenot.com)

I wouldn't trade my independence, my power, my money, and/or my autonomy for all the push-up bras in Towson Town Center. I'm the luckiest girl I know.

Comments

[astronautical.livejournal.com]

what you're saying about flexible work place and choice is so right on, but I am also so pissed that I HAVE to make this choice, while it's generally expected that men don't have to. even though there ARE men who are willing to do chores and be supportive of your success it's still the status quo that the man always works and the woman either works and has day care or doesn't work and is only a mommy. I want this hard choice to be a dad's choice too.

[suhl.livejournal.com]

What's weird (from my own life story) is that I think I got that and turned it down. I was always the career-track girl, and he always wanted to be Mr. Mom. I never ever imagined considering staying home, and now that I have to actually face it, I want to be the one who *gets* to have the choice (rather than the one who *has* to make the choice). That said, I still can't imagine not doing something else besides mommying, whether that means working from home somehow or volunteering or whatever. In our case, it turns out that I'm the one with a job that could potentially be done from home, whereas his could not. Stay tuned for next month's exciting episode of What Will They Pick...

[astronautical.livejournal.com]

it's really an amazing dilemna, even when one knows what one wants! it's one of those ugly decisions where there are just too many people involved. I do want to know what you end up picking...

the only happy medium I can see for american culture is that how, we curb our consumerist ways and are able to work part time. that way everyone gets to be a parent, everyone gets to be a worker, and everyone gets to have time together as a family too. sadly, though, I don't think it'll happen soon enough for our generation to cash in/out.