Hirschman: “Homeward Bound.”

Question 1

What is the main issue the author is addressing?

Answer 1

Women are getting educated but they still stay home (and are expected to stay home and raise kids)

Women leave career to stay home

Question 2

The author looked into successful brides who had gotten married. What did she find?

Answer 2

90% had children

Of 30 women, only 5 still worked full time

Half weren’t working at all

(some of them even quit before the baby came)

Question 3

What is choice feminism?

Answer 3

A woman could make whatever choice (and as long as she chose it, it was feminism)

Ex. stay single, have 10 kids, leave work etc

So people think they are choosing their gendered lives

Question 4

How is choice feminism problematic?

Answer 4

Like the right to work and the right to vote, women have the right to have a flourishing life

This includes (but is not only) a family
- Women don’t need to choose only having a family, they are multifaceted.

Question 5

How can women combat this?

Answer 5

1. Go into college expecting to support yourself / ur family with ur degree
2. Look for on the job / or further education
3. Avoid taking on more of your fair share of the second shift (don’t take up all the housework - might push u to stay home)
4. Don’t quit job (because nannies are expensive) your work matters, and by having both couples work -overall more money
5. Have one child (two children tends to be where women stay home)