Reply #24: That quote on the bottom by brownbeck kind of pisses me off.

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I was born into a house where my mother worked. My grandmother and babysitter were more like my mother's than my own. Now, I try to erase that aloofness that I felt by overdoing for my child. I work 56 hours away from the home. And I work all different shifts to make it possible for my child not to be in daycare. This means that my husband I become passing ships in the night. So here I am, stuck trying to be the perfect wife, mother, and worker. I'm tired. The feminist movement only achieved jobs for women. The pay is still unequal, and a lot of that pay goes to financing the extra car, insurance, daycare, and taxes. However, without my additional paycheck, we would not be able to pay for the house that we live in. Damned if you do and damned if you don't.

Women and men should have joined together in this fight. If two people are now working from a household, they are producing more time labor. Instead of women working 40hrs, men should have insisted on working 32 hours because women were adding an additional 24 hours of productivity. Then there would be more time for yard work, soccer games, and time with the children.

I don't like this forced rut I'm stuck in. I don't appreciate as greatly the women's movement. They worked against men, rather than try to include men. I think most people understand that a marriage is equivalent in love and getting things done. Why we put a wall between the genders completely baffles me. So, now, I'm stuck working crappy hours and trying to raise my child like I wish I had been raised.. on top of that still having to pay the bills and do the laundry and cook the meals and bathe the child and, and, and, and, and.... I'm being worked to death. Guess that's the point, let me die before I get to retire and use my s.s. or my 401K (if I ever work at a co that provides one)... Isn't it sad, college educated, and working for shitty wages with absolutely no benefits.... To boot, I only have a 16hr work day for Thanksgiving. Hope you all enjoy your families...BECASUSE the feminist screwed me.