What do you learn from feminism?
So, head of our department, department chairwoman asked “what have we learned from Feminism?, The following is my answer:
There’s one thing for sure I’ve learned that is Feminism isn't only for women. We are for equality but not necessarily sameness. Having a strong independent woman as a mate is helpful to my husband who sought an equal life partner not a house slave. Having equal pay for work of equal value means that the financial burden of a family isn't just stuck on the man. Sharing childcare means that the husband sees his kids and is involved in their lives instead of being a work horse who brings in all the family income and is too exhausted to share his life with theirs.
It will mean that men have to change too. The point is, feminism isn't a "thing of the past." It's here now, from the present into the future, in a new form than you remember and know it.
Sometimes I would ask myself, why do I get up at 5:30 am so I can fix their breakfasts and wake them up and send them off to school, then rush off to my job from 8 to 4, then rush home to cook dinner, do a couple hours of cleaning, catch up on reading for work, then collapse in bed? Is this "having it all," or is it merely "doing it all"? Why can't we respect women who want to stay home? People are shifting around in the worlds of work and family, but somehow, the old edifice remains in place.
I know that certainly we must go through a period of trying to work out what is the best way to go. But definitely our goal is a better society, and a better existence, a better understanding of ourselves and one another, for both men and women.
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