By: beautifulcynic

beautifulcynic — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:42:55 +0000

I don’t know what the supermums think, but I think balance is always the key. Women’s rights have come a very long way since Victorian times, but there are still some areas that need improvement (in the Western world; certainly there is still a long way to go in many other parts of the world). Young women now are reaping the rewards of the battles fought by the women before us, it’s true.
However, one thing that I see happening with young women now (including my age, but especially younger) is a lack of understanding of how recently so many of our rights came to be. One problem with growing up with certain rights is one tends to think they are inalienable, and one can be rather flippant about it all – not realising that there are forces trying to recind those rights, and that that could actually happen. (Witness increasingly strict contraception laws in the US; while not *illegal*, it is very difficult to get The Pill in some states.) People grow up with a right, they think it’s theirs forever, not realising that that right had to be won and fought for, and could once again be lost, potentially.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 17:16:29 +0000

Tame perhaps now but I do remember having to fight such almost as restrictive misconceptions in my own youth (being a female secretary being replaced with the impossibility of choosing to interrupt a pregnacy or taking the pill which was forbidden by law) . I delighted in your description of Pamela and her pranks which ring a well known bell including talking back to a cold steel father! I did get married albeit later in life and after first completing my own carreer. Things have evolved since, thank God and you young ladies have what seems to be the best part. Do “superwomen” agree though? I see mostly exhausted mother executives around here!

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