What does it Mean to Be a Woman in the 21st century? Is it easy?
By liisafiat
@liisafiat (659)
Latvia
January 2, 2009 2:40pm CST
# So- what does it mean to be a woman in the 21st century? Does it mean: having a great career, being an ideal housewife and an ideal in raising up her children?
# Does it mean lonely mothers and hanging out in the clubs every 5day and 6day ni#ght women?
# How will You describe the woman of today? How does she look like? And- how should she look like?
# AND: IS IT EASY to be the Woman in 21st century?
Thank You!
# PS. Feel free to make comparisons between Your country and other countries. Or to catch the average meaning.
2 responses
@cobrateacher (8432)
• United States
2 Jan 09
Being a woman has never been easy, but it seems harder than ever these days. We're expected to be all things to all people. At home and at work, everyone seems to depend on us, the revel in putting us down. It must have been really boring when women didn't have jobs, but it couldn't have been as difficult as a full-time job as well as full-time motherhood as well as full-time housekeeping. When you examine it, you can't help wondering how we do it all!
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@onlydia (2808)
• United States
3 Jan 09
It must have been boring when women didn't have jobs. What do you mean by that? As being a homemaker is a full time job. Unless of course you have a maid and a cook and someone to take care of the garden. My Grandmother never had a so called full time job. She was a farmers wife. Did the milking and feeding the pigs and chicken collecting eggs making all the food. I don't think you could do all that my Grandmother did. I'm sorry but the way you out that just made me mad. Your kidding right please tell me your kidding about being boring. The kid who had no running water until I was 9 years old. Boring NOT
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@cobrateacher (8432)
• United States
3 Jan 09
I hope I didn't offend, as certainly didn't intend that. With so much hard work to be done every day, life becomes pretty isolated. Interactions outside the family or small vicinity would be rare,and there surely wouldn't be a lot of entertainment. With whom would a woman exchange ideas? From whom would she gather a variety of ideas? Maybe instead of boring, I should have said it was insular.
@onlydia (2808)
• United States
3 Jan 09
Well, in my family it has alway's been this way. Working a full time job and raising kids and taking care of everyone and maybe time for your self. We were farmers so no the woman didn't work in factorys or had time to get bored as we didn't have maids. No it is not easy being a woman. But you know in the USA it is better now then it ever was. And the women Had to fight for that. We are fat we are thin we are all great looking. 
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