We had a great event last weekend at Princeton, despite having to compete with raucous reunion festivities. (It turns out that Princeton alumni are very serious about their reunion-ing.)
Some of the great questions/insights that audience members brought up included:
What happens when women become more financially or professionally successful than their male partners? One woman in the audience feels that the contrast cost her a marriage!
We need to expand the work/life conversation beyond "get as much help as you can" in privileged circles. How can we see it as a collective fight, not a personal failure?
Are women biologically predisposed to want to spend time with their babies in a way that feminists don't feel comfortable admitting? An OB-GYN assures everyone that no woman can possibly know how she'll feel (in terms of desires around staying home or getting back to work), until she's in that post-birth moment.
Perhaps the 1970s feminist movement was not as cohesive as it is somehow portrayed to younger women. Would love to talk more about this...
Thanks to the amazing organizers, Amada, Jennifer, and Chloe, and all of those who came out for the event!
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