The article--Feminism is in Trouble--provides the impression that the women of today must make choices, choices and more choices as they accept the roles of mate, mother, and bread winner. With each decision she makes in the expansion of these roles comes a set of obligations she must fulfill to satisfy the culture's expectations and demands for good performance on her part. The seeming endless list of choices with their accompanied demands upon her is so myriad that at some point in her life she may consider herself going crazy! It's just too much responsibility she must bear!
And if that's not all, she must confront the prospect of a midlife crisis brought on by hormonal changes in her body, which may cause her to rethink the commitments she is expected to live up to.
Plainly, the women of today need to take a lesson from the women of yesteryear. Oh yes, the ones before may have not become the sole bread-winners, but even remaining in the home they had many more children than those of today. And as their kids got older, they took on responsibilities their mothers delegated to them. The older kids became her helpers.
The lesson their mothers were teaching their girls was that of delegating tasks to those children who were mature enough to accept them. By delegating tasks and responsibilities, the woman of yesteryear was training her female offspring to do likewise, and that lesson applied in the home or in a business, job setting. The skills of time management also were honed.
I do not wish to make light of the way in which the today's woman has emerged as a true equal and partner, who is capable of arranging her time and effort in making sure that the responsibilities she has accepted in her social and professional worlds are duly accomplished well. And in the end, the accomplished woman of today should expect the judgment of her society: "Well done, thy good and faithful lady!"
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