We need to rewrite the script.
Having grown up around pregnant and nursing women, it was clear to me that women and babies went together like hot milk and honey. As for my mum, she worked because she had to; her primary and most precious identity was that of “mother.” But as I matured and the potential paths my life might take began to reveal themselves, the womanly experiences of
, childbirth, and childrearing did not even cross my mind as possibilities to be rejected. Which just wasn’t normal.Girl children are indoctrinated with the message that womanhood is synonymous with motherhood from the word“In some ways, forgoing motherhood in favour of doing literally anything else with your life is the final frontier in women’s fight for equality.”
Until relatively recently, the answer to the above has been an unequivocal yes. Being female has meant being socialised to aspire to the role of mother. But the pervasive ambivalence about motherhood among my generation and younger, and the numbers in which we are either putting it off or opting out full stop, suggests that this is no longer the case –. After all, the past four decades have also brought forth untold alternative role models for what a woman can be – and more emerge with each new generation. She is an artist, a director, a CEO. A traveller, an activist, a whistleblower, a W.I.T.C.H. .
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