Excellent finds, Kev. I’ve read Crittenden’s book shortly after it first came out, and found that it really resonated with me and many of the other older Gen X women that I knew. I think a lot of women are coming around to this way of thinking. My husband and I have discussed how we would advise our daughters regarding education, career, marriage, and family; and we plan to encourage them to do exactly what Crittenden suggests in this clip: marry and have children at a fairly young age. Most of the men who have a strong desire to get married and have children will be married off by the time they are thirty. That’s why women are so shocked when they finally feel “ready” to marry in their early thirties, but when the look around for a husband, nobody’s there. The marriage strike is very real when a woman reaches that age.
There IS a biological clock for women, but feminism suggests that there’s no such thing. Unfortunately, what BG said is also true about employers not wanting to hire older women. Damned if they do, damned if they don’t. A bit like Logan’s Run…perhaps we should just kill them off at age thirty since they don’t seem have any value beyond that. 🙁
I don’t envy young girls and women today.
This is a clip of Sheryl Sandberg’s commencement speech at Barnard College (a women’s college). I think she hits on a lot of points here. She wants to fight the turning tide against traditional feminism. Not sure it’s realistic.
