Finally someone said it - Women can't have it all in a man's world - see Sara Parkin in the Guardian Newspaper, Monday 3 May 2010. Finally the truth that women will not be fully equal and visible on our terms if we keep trying to fit in with what others expect from us has been printed. What is expected from girls and women is so in twined with sexist thinking and inequality it is hard to untangle what is right for us and what is right for others.
There is so much pressure on girls and women to be what our family, friends, colleagues, work and school culture, media, music, fashion and exercise industries, and the list goes on - expect us to be like, look like, and act like. The conversation that encourages girls and women to really think what is right for them and what nurtures them is so faint, it's inaudible. And if it does break through the surface it invokes the palpable fear of girls and women becoming powerful.
No amount of legislation will make women equal and visible. No amount of legislation will create a world in which women have as much say as men. It requires us to connect together and dare to do it the way that is right for us. To connect together and force the corporate world to see men as well as women as parents, to force the corporate world to value the world and its inhabitants more than profit (as with this BP oil disaster), and to force industries that make money out of making women feel bad about themselves to change.
This is what motivated me to keep going. Visit (I know here it goes again but I have to keep saying it against the din that so afraid of powerful women) Women's Power Circles.
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