I Knew One Thing. I Did Not

It Is Better For A Woman To Compete Impersonally In Society, As Men Do, Than To Compete For Dominance In Her Own Home With Her Husband, Compete With Her Neighbors For Empty Status, And So Smother Her Son That He Cannot Compete At All.

The Suburban Housewife - She Was The Dream Image Of The Young American Women And The Envy, It Was Said, Of Women All Over The World. The American Housewife - Freed By Science And Labor-saving Appliances From The Drudgery, The Dangers Of Childbirth, And The Illnesses Of Her Grandmother Had Found True Feminine Fulfillment.

Most Of The People In The Workforce Today Will Spend Some Years When They Also Have Children And Family Responsibilities.

Chosen Motherhood Is The Real Liberation. The Choice To Have A Child Makes The Whole Experience Of Motherhood Different, And The Choice To Be Generative In Other Ways Can At Last Be Made, And Is Being Made By Many Women Now, Without Guilt.

If You Were Very Bright And You Became Head Of A Department, As I Did, Of The Psychology Department, You Were Encouraged To Go On To Graduate Work. But As A Women You Didn't Even Think About Discrimination.