I think you should read this article, too. While many women choose to work outside the home because they find it fulfilling (and prefer it to staying home with the kids all day), many do so because they feel as though they have no choice. Either they feel as though they would be destitute without that income, or they take an income-earning position because they don’t want to risk being helpless if the husband abuses or abandons them.
But many women are working for a negative income, especially those at lower income levels. After taxes (taxed at higher rates, if they are married to an income-earning spouse), childcare, work clothing, accelerated car repairs/purchases, additional costs related to eating out due to workload, inability to shop properly and negotiate with contractors or others with whom they have to do business in their personal lives, etc…after all of this is taken into account, women are often left with just a few cents on the dollar earned, if that. Add to that all of the additional stress and strain on the marriage and family, and the quaint notion that women can “have it all” begins to crumble.
This article is long, but it describes the frustration many women feel about their roles in society. As I’ve said before, if we really cared about women’s issues, we would officially recognize the work that they do and impute a dollar value to it (and it’s a lot), and make sure they are legally protected in the event of abuse or abandonment. That would be REAL feminism. Instead, the “feminists” pretend to care about women’s issues while denigrating the work that has been traditionally done by women and exalting “men’s work” as the only kind of work that has any value. That is wrong, IMO.
