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At twelve years of experience in the suburbs "opt-out" culture, I am intrigued by the renewed discourse and evil on the world social dynamics island they inhabit. I see the points raised. In record numbers, we leave the career path has been charted by our ancestors feminist and take the exits that lead us to marriage and motherhood, financial dependence, biscuits and gardening. It seems strange from the outside.
In addition, having made that decision a decade I am puzzled by the misunderstanding that the speech reflects now.
What Betty Friedan has done brilliantly over forty years in his pioneering work, The Feminine Mystique, was to describe the cultural constraints that to believe that women were destined to be housewives. Precisely because of his work that I have never felt the weight of these exceeded expectations. What, in fact, lead me to abandon my career as a lawyer were the social forces that gave surprisingly little attention in the recent opt-out "conversation. The reason for this may be that what lies behind these forces is as sexy as the bark of trees. Economy.
Residential area of Connecticut is outrageously rich. The average price of a house in Greenwich is more than 2.6 million. Enough said. Jobs that generate wealth are simply not compatible with the two working models have been proposed as a solution to "opt-out" crisis. However, getting wealth this step requires a level of commitment that extends to people in their human limitations, and requires the complete abdication of family responsibilities to others.
This is not surprising that no matter where you start, families who are around these jobs so as to gravitate towards a complete division of labor - the gold mine and help - and be part of a highly specialized economy that makes the model of two working groups not only impractical, but the edge of the absurd. Husbands are not available. The houses are enormous. And schools are built around the presumption that a parent will be available at all times. Add to that the exorbitant entry the main source of money making a second income as irrelevant and tip the balance is just off its hinges for the working family.
There are two truths at work here. First is the fact that these jobs will never change. Driven by the heart and soul of capitalism jobs which are wolves. And while making token efforts to accommodate families, there is always someone more willing to make sacrifices.
The second truth is that we are far from being the kind of social change necessary for men and women to change their roles within these families. This is the confidence gender traditionalist Friedan wrote, and indeed even the advocates of stricter return This document proposed as a viable solution. After three years as a wolf myself, first as a banker and then as a lawyer, I have experienced for a woman to attain those jobs and have families, it not only to find a husband, but also a woman.
Back to reading the bibliography work now, it seems that my life is a case study in the pitfalls of "opting out". Leslie Bennetts on the female bug exposes all that well. I lost my financial independence, I saw my self-esteem damaged. And I fell easily into the trap of being the perfect mother - making organic baby food and obsessively organize my kitchen drawers. But time spent with my children was extremely important to me. Given our Family Structure and the world he lived, the election was the correct one. For all the things I left, I did not writing my own story. There are no easy answers.
However, I am grateful to exit the "opt-out" universe for a writing career that is both familiar and very rewarding. Ironically, the years I spent in this universe has led me to become a writer and gave me something important to write. I have great empathy for my colleagues who are dealing with consequences of a decision impossible. And I consider myself lucky that I found a way around them. The cages that we can take be gold, but they are still cages. And the forces that oppose not only those in the heart of our culture.
2007 Wendy Walker
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