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| The Feminine Mystique - Betty Friedan |
2017 Reading Challenge - Day 102
April 13, 2017
Book 31 - The Feminine Mystique
Betty Friedan (1997)
Part 8 - pages 233-257
Reading Time - 1 hour
Betty Friedan (1997)
Part 8 - pages 233-257
Reading Time - 1 hour
Here's the thing with housewives... they take more time to do housework than working women who have other jobs. What a working woman can do in an hour takes a housewife 6 hours. Why is that? Well... there's a law somewhere that says nature abhors a vacuum and that work will expand to fill the time available. Gotta be busy... gotta make housework look "important" to fulfill your own sense of worth. Not wonder housewives feel so empty!
Friedan says that the more your intelligence exceeds your job requirements, the greater your boredom. What an appalling waste of woman power... on cleaning and dusting and chauffeuring and goodness knows what else.
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