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Leftist Men Are Not Born to Lead Radical Struggles
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Regarding your take on feminism?
Yes, a great deal has changed. New economic roles
have brought women greater equality with men and
also many fresh opportunities, particularly the
chance to experience careers and achievements in the
world beyond the home. But working women have not
simply traded their housework for a career; many
that I know have taken on two jobs - one at home,
and one at work.
Surveys show that most working women enjoy their job,
for economic and other reasons.
Yet for many women the experience of
a career has involved finding out that the rigors
of pursuing their careers, maintaining intimate
relationships, and raising children, are difficult to
balance.
Some, who put their career before marriage are finding
out that they have hit the 'invisible ceiling.' Now in
their forties, they regard themselves as casualties of
their own revolution - especially if they did not
marry and now face the prospect of never finding a husband
or having children.
Also many post-feminist generation of women today take the
benefits of women's liberation for granted, yet are
dubious about the burdens of being the perfect wife,
mother, and executive.
Changes in women's roles has had an immense impact on the
family. A generation of Australian children is now being
raised by working mothers who leave them in some form of
day care from an early age - something unprecedented on this
scale in the Australian experience. Additionally, women's
new independence has made it possible for them to contemplate
leaving unhappy marriages or raising children on their own.
Partly as a result, there has been a sharp increase in the
number of divorces, of births to unwed women,
and of female-headed households.
One in every two married women is now likely to get divorced,
and one of every five mothers is single.
Yet many of these women have found themselves highly vulnerable.
Masculine roles are now more ambiguous, more flexible,
more subject to interpretation by the individual.
Resolving this kind of ambiguity is part of the challenge of
social and cultural change.