No one is going to argue the point. Women have made great headway in the last fifty years – emerging from the kitchen to the boardroom, and beyond. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report women now account for 47% of the total workforce. Having grown up in a household where my expectations as a female were to marry and procreate – period – I think this is a fantastic occurrence. Granted, most of those jobs are in occupations traditionally thought of as “Women’s jobs” such as teaching, social work and accounting (apparently we’re good at numbers), and even in those jobs, women receive less pay than men doing the same work.

Yes, we’ve come a long way, but we aren’t finished yet.

I vividly remember my mother telling me, “I don’t know why you want to go to college.” This was said in the car on the way to register for my first semester of college. I had a boyfriend at the time, and that, in my mother’s mind, meant I was headed to the altar and the maternity room shortly thereafter. It’s the way she was raised. It’s the way most of my close relatives were raised. By this time, my closest cousin was indeed married and had a child. Becoming a wife and mother at eighteen was not something I had any interest in, or any aptitude for.

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