Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Womens work

I was right that some people were looking forward to hard times:

Part of me found the events of last week strangely invigorating. It wasn’t just the sense that the disaster we had all been waiting for had finally happened, but the potential for aesthetic & spiritual renewal. The idea that we are all about to leave behind our bad consumerist ways & embark on a commercial detox feels somehow exciting

Austerity Therapy Times2 22 September 2008

I am going to link this with the report that the proportion of women among new appointments as secondary school heads declined last year, and with an earlier report from the Equality Commssion that the number of women at the highest levels of business & politics has also declined

Put the three together, make an enormous leap, & discern the beginning of a trend

More women have decided that the game is not worth the candle & are reverting to their traditional role - tidying up the mess, binding up the wounds & kissing it all better



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