| Helen Reddy – I Am Woman Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I don't think they were so much escaping the home, as wanting to have a choice, a say in their own lives. To have a career in their early 20's and marry/have children when they were in their 30's. My mom married at 18 - my great grandmother married at 15 (and lived to be 85-luckily she married a "good" man). Neither do I believe that they were man-haters who were against marriage and children. I didn't realize till I started researching that women in the 1800's couldn't own property and that abuse wasn't a crime but considered a husband's/father's right; That women who protested for the vote in the early 1900's were arrested and put in jail - and not exactly treated well while there!!!! My great great grandmother had eleven children and died as a result - birth control that women controlled did not exist (well, neither did advanced medicine or sanitation). I could put other examples out, but that's a start. These days I read what's going on in US politics, and I'm afraid the newest generation has been lured into the world of Bratz dolls and The Kardashian's while the powers- that-be are slowly chipping away at women's rights while the they are shopping and watching reality TV. Would love to see someone do a cover on this song - time to pay attention to what's going on around us! PS: I enjoyed the times I could stay home with my sons more than my 30 years in the workforce (actually, I mostly did both at the same time). But let us know if after 20 years of child rearing, housework, and making a dollar stretch isn't just as exhausting as being in the workforce (though more rewarding, I agree!)! |
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