आधुनिक महिलाएँ यह सोचना पसंद करती हैं कि काम और परिवार के बीच संतुलन बनाने का विचार हमने खोजा है, लेकिन महिलाएँ हमेशा से यह करती आई हैं।
Modern women like to think we invented the idea of balancing work and family but women have always done it.
Modern women like to think we invented the idea of balancing work and family but women have always done it.
हम (महिलाएँ) इसे बहुत स्वाभाविक मानते हैं कि हम जो चाहें कर सकती हैं। बहुत समय पहले ऐसा नहीं था।
We (women) take it for granted that we can do what we want. Not so very long ago, that was not the case.
We (women) take it for granted that we can do what we want. Not so very long ago, that was not the case.
मातृत्व की नैतिकता 19वीं सदी की नारीवादियों के यूटोपिया (आदर्शलोक) का केंद्र थी। मुझे नहीं लगता कि आज की महिलाएँ मातृत्व को अपनी व्यक्तिगत शक्ति के स्रोत के रूप में देखती हैं, राजनीतिक शक्ति तो दूर की बात है। मुझे नहीं लगता कि आज की महिलाओं में यह अहساس है कि माँ के रूप में उनका जीवन उन्हें दुनिया को बेहतर बनाने के लिए कोई विशेष शक्ति या गुण देता है। मुझे लगता है कि महिलाएँ माँ के रूप में अपने जीवन को अपने कामकाजी जीवन के एक पूरक के रूप में देखती हैं—एक संतोषजनक और महत्वपूर्ण पूरक, इसमें कोई दो राय नहीं—लेकिन यह कुछ ऐसा है जो वे काम करने के अलावा करती हैं, इसलिए नहीं कि एक पत्नी और माँ होने से उन्हें दुनिया को सुधारने में कोई स्पष्ट बढ़त मिलती है।
An ethic of maternalism was central to the utopianism of 19th century feminists. I don't think that today's women see motherhood as a source of personal power, let alone political power. I don't think that women now have that same sense that their lives as mothers gives them any special power or virtue. I think women see their lives as mothers as an adjunct to their working lives - a fulfilling and important adjunct, to be sure - but something they do in addition to working in the public realm, not because being a wife and mother gives them a distinct edge in improving the world as we know it.
An ethic of maternalism was central to the utopianism of 19th century feminists. I don't think that today's women see motherhood as a source of personal power, let alone political power. I don't think that women now have that same sense that their lives as mothers gives them any special power or virtue. I think women see their lives as mothers as an adjunct to their working lives - a fulfilling and important adjunct, to be sure - but something they do in addition to working in the public realm, not because being a wife and mother gives them a distinct edge in improving the world as we know it.