The New American
It certainly is odd that the ideological set now claiming not to know what a woman is once claimed to know precisely what a woman’s role should be. But it did. And, boy, was it ever a coup, in league with convincing eagles they shouldn’t fly or sunfish they shouldn’t swim. In fact, generations of women have been sold the lie of careerism — to their own detriment (and our civilization’s).
So says commentator and new mother Sarah Wilder, whose words certainly could make feminists wilder. As she wrote Sunday at 1819 News:
There’s an entire generation of women who have been sold a specific lie.
Sixty years after the second wave feminism of women like Gloria Steinem, the idea that women must have a career that looks just like a man’s in order to not squander their brains and talents still exists. The daughters of the women who grew up under Steinem’s brand of feminism understand that there are undeniable benefits of having children but have not shaken the sense that they would be giving up something at least as good, if not better, when sacrificing a career.
In such an environment, a woman suffers a bit of a whiplash when she finds that the same career standard applied to men and women is significantly harder for her to meet.
Be in the House — and the Home?
In other words, you can’t really “have it all.” But this doesn’t stop many women from trying — even in Congress. As Wilder writes about a case in point:
U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen (D-Colo.) is leading a bipartisan group of lawmakers in advocating for remote voting options for congresswomen who have recently given birth. Parading her newborn around the Capitol, Pettersen is giving floor speeches and TV interviews to emphasize what she sees as the absurdity of the requirement for in-person voting…
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