作者YPJennifer (Jharna)
看板Feminism
标题【分享】Why Women Still Can’t Have It All
时间Sat Jun 23 02:44:56 2012
大西洋月刊 7/8月号 封面故事:
Why Women Still Can’t Have It All
IT’S TIME TO STOP FOOLING OURSELVES, SAYS A WOMAN WHO LEFT A POSITION OF
POWER: THE WOMEN WHO HAVE MANAGED TO BE BOTH MOTHERS AND TOP PROFESSIONALS
ARE SUPERHUMAN, RICH, OR SELF-EMPLOYED. IF WE TRULY BELIEVE IN EQUAL
OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL WOMEN, HERE’S WHAT HAS TO CHANGE.
By Anne-Marie Slaughter
http://ppt.cc/Orm1
这篇文章真是细致与好看,立论现实且具启发性!!!!!
这篇文章从现代女性如何在「工作──家庭」间取得平衡的问题思考起,
从各个面向谈出现今社会人们背後的价值观。
前美国国务院政策归划主任Anne-Marie Slaughter回顾她2009~2011她在华盛顿DC的工作
,她说道她不仅仅只有美国国务院高阶管理工作者的角色,她还是两个儿子的妈妈。
过去女性主义者为了强调自己也有如同男人般的专业能力,
刻意牺牲了自己的家庭生活,专注在工作上。
到现在现代女性认为,这种「只有工作才是正事」的专业主义的认定,不是女性赋权
(empowerment)定义的全部。女性应该有选择自己做什麽的权利--不管是去工作,或是为
了家庭转做几年顾问职工作,从各个角度了解女性的选择才是真正的平等。
(“to be a strong woman, you don’t have to give up on the things that define
you as a woman.” )
(“Empowering yourself,” Jackson said in her speech at Princeton, “doesn’t
have to mean rejecting motherhood, or eliminating the nurturing or feminine
aspectsof who you are.”)
作者Anne-Marie Slaughter也期许现代资本主义社会中,对女性工作者不利的工作制度
能够获得改善。
我觉得句末作者讲的话真的很妙: We’ll create a better society in the process,
for all women. We may need to put a woman in the White House before we are able
to change the conditions of the women working at Walmart.
很真实很诚恳的一篇文章!!!
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