There was a lot of truth in her early ideas. I have daughters now who have both families and interesting careers. No valium for them.
It's all about finding balance in life. After all, we cannot encourage our daughters to go onto higher ed. and get advanced degrees, and then expect them to sit home and watch soap operas.
There's a right way to do it and a wrong way.
The really ugly feminists are the ones who started the proabortion movement and influenced young women to kill their babies in order to have careers.
Thanks for the reply. This thread is an excrescence, and shameful, and I appreciate your composed interjection. As an aside, the way some freepers focus on physical appearance, one would thing they are all fashion models or something.
This canard has always irritated me. Hello! "Educate a man and you have educated him, educate a woman and you have educated the next generation".
The idea that women who stay home with their children are "wasting" their education is one of feminisms greatest and dirtiest lies. What are children, chopped liver?
Raising one's children well, is one of the greatest personal and public achievements there is, despite what communists, feminists and their ilk tell you. Everything else is chopped liver.
There is more to staying home to raise your kids than "watching soap operas".
I personally never knew of any woman who had an abortion for "convenience" or career (and I know many many professional women). I think the younger generation knows quite well to sort out the good from the bad.
The "bill of goods" was also materialism... that somehow the house and the appliances would be enough to make one happy. You are correct. It is all about finding balance in life.
"It's all about finding balance in life. After all, we cannot encourage our daughters to go onto higher ed. and get advanced degrees, and then expect them to sit home and watch soap operas."
What? Being a sahm means watching soap operas?
I think I know what you mean, but you said it poorly.
YOU really do NOT understand life, do you, especially home life.
I take issue with the idea that Betty Friedan was responsible for women having careers, there were plenty of women who had careers before Friedan was even born. WWII had more impact on women in the workforce than she did.
as an educated woman who stays home and raises her children, i can assure you i do not stay home and watch soap operas... ick!
i married when i was 31, became a mother when i was 36... so yes, for 12-14 years, my career was outside the home... but now that i am home, i would never consider it a waste of my education...
Follow me on this: they got to live a life of leisure and they WERE COMPLAINING?!?!?!
You know what? Give me the box of bon-bons and the daytime trash TV because I will take it. Let the wretched "unfulfilled" harridans work for a living, then.
I always thought Margaret Thatcher played it exactly right.
There was a lot of truth in her early ideas.
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Huh? Not really.