[Foundation-l] Re: wikibreak

[Ray Saintonge]

Anthere wrote:

> Yeah, these are strange times. For my two first kids, I was not 
> working and spent all days just ... euh... doing what actually ? Hmmm, 
> getting informed by others, swimming, trying to prepare myself...
> But after the birth of the second, I felt like my brain was dying from 
> lack of activity. Just being with other non working young moms, and 
> with babies who do not even talk, your brain begins to crumble, and 
> you wonder why on Earth you ever received an education. It is so easy 
> to let oneself slip. Turn one self only toward family duties, 
> cleaning, ironing, cooking, sleeping, chatting. Just duties. Passive 
> activities.
>
> These days, I work too much, I do not take enough rest. But it is 
> important for me to not turn entirely inside and to stick to outside 
> world. Not sure everyone can understand that. A balance Wikipedia 
> helps keeping :-)

Some Americans are only beginning to learn about it through a TV 
programme called, "Desparate Housewives."  It was only natural that it 
should follow "Sex and the City."

It all speaks to the changing role of women in society, and the 
reallignment of gender roles.  I suspect that it will be several 
generations before the situation finds equilibrium.

Ec