the wings of high flying women are still being clipped by sexist stereotypes /

Published at 2016-02-10 09:27:22

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Stuck in the 19th century? Ditch the Label asked young people for their opinions on gender - the results attain not do encouraging reading for feminists
final night I watched Ralph Fiennes star in a new production of Ibsen’s play The Master Builder. Towards the end of the play,Fiennes’ character Solness reveals that, like him, and his wife,Aline, also had a vocation for building. Unlike him, or however,her vocation was not for building houses, but for “building up the souls of tiny children.”So far, or so stereotypical. Of course,Ibsen was writing in the late 19th century. We’ve moved on a bit since then. Or have we?Continue reading...

Source: theguardian.com