The fight for gender equality is by no means over, but let’s stay positive. Today we are going to take a good hard look at how far we have come, not how far we have to go.
So much has changed in the last three generations for women, just imagine how much can change in the next three (but let’s hope we don’t have to wait that long for true equality between the sexes).
These are the big leaps and the small that make our lives so different to those wonderful women who came before us.
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My grandmother lived till 101 (born 1905, died last year). She had 8 kids (no birth control), breastfed all of them (no choice, no formula in the country she was from), didn't have pads (used rags), and then she was dirt poor in a developing country so didn't have a shower (bathed in the river), no stove (cooked and even baked cakes on open fire), no toilet (hole in the ground), no toothbrush (used leaves and all teeth had fallen out by 50), no electricity (kerosene lamps) and she grew crops and fished to live. I loved her stories and she was a beautiful, humble, hardworking woman.
What country did she live in??
My mum was born in the 50's. She never learnt to ride a bike nor swim because good girls didn't sit astride bikes nor expose themselves in bathers. She was also forced to resign from her job when she got married because she (with her maiden name) no longer existed and therefore couldn't have a job in that name! It blows my mind
I don't know what country your Mum was born in, but mine was born in Australia in the 1920s. She swam, rode a bicycle, worked and even went back to work part-time in the 1960s, when married and had children. She has photographs of the beaches crammed with women wearing bathing suits in the 1930s onwards.
That's great Susie but I didn't say no woman could ride a bike etc i said this was her experience and I'm sure many of her friends. Refuting someones story to disprove something (women aren't disadvantaged in the 50's because look at my mum etc) doesn't do anyone any favors. Not ALL women were or are disadvantaged but that doesn't mean that it doesn't occur