Feminine Character Works

Currently, most of the world sees the height of female success as marrying well. I have a big problem with that. I have heard it said that women are the slaves of slaves or women are the slaves of the modern world and possibly a few variations on that.  This is rooted in defining female success as being a good wife and mom at the expense of having a paid career and even if she has talents that CAN pay well IF you are, say, a therapist or various other professions, people expect her to do it out of the goodness of her heart. Some years ago, one article labeled this emotional labor , which I think is a lousy label. Music and plays often involve evoking strong cathartic feelings but song writers and play writers aren't viewed as engaging in emotional labor while other forms of women's work got lumped in under this header. The reality is that historically marriage mostly wasn't about modern concepts of "love." It was often a political alliance or a deal to help both m...