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Was drifting through some thoughts to put together a comment on the topic of, I think, elder feminists - but the topic ranges much further than that - and so did I. And I’ve been thinking that it was about time I started to put something of myself into my blog. The problem is that I have too much fun digging up bits and pieces I think are interesting - I don’t get to write ‘stuff’.
Anyway, my thoughts went back to my days fighting the good fight for ‘women’s lib’, as we called the feminist movement in those days. (Others may argue with me here, but I am aware that there are differences of opinion on did the two ever merge?).
I was living in New Zealand at the time, married, twenty-one, and with a baby son. I needed to work, but it wasn’t easy - the combination of first finding a job with a child; then paying for child care out of what was ‘women’s wages’; and taking care of the family - single-handedly in those days because it was some sort of challenge we needed to meet - supermoms status.
I guess I did it harder than some, without thinking I had married a man who came from a family of women, all with an Italian background. These women were all super home-makers and my husband was acclimatised to receiving home comforts with very little input to making it happen.
My own background was as far from this as could be imagined - although my family too was almost completely women - there were no men - and that’s where the difference was. My mother was the complete control of all she had around her. There was no ‘dinner-time, quick - set the table’ element to our lives as growing girls at all.
We did our best, and managed to have quite a nice marriage for many years, but eventually we grew apart, and separated.
"Queensland Time"
turningsixty
To everything There is a season ...
... saluting elderbloggers
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I was part of it too. Over here of course.
I look forward to reading more about your life and thought. 2 of my daughters are married with children and jointly share family responsibilities, which seems to be much more the case these days.
Best wishes
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