‘Family economics’ unfair to women entrepreneurs, says Trump-Trudeau panel, Jan. 17
Lisa Wright’s story on the first report of the Canada-U.S. Council for Advancement of Women Entrepreneurs explains that women in many cases are expected to “care for the children and maintain the household.”
To put it in less-flattering terms: More than 50 years after the launch of modern feminism, do we consider what mommies do in the world of business as important as what daddies do? If so, why are women still expected to do it all if they want to have it all?
How is it that two generations of adult women born since the 1960s, with unsurpassed educational opportunities and the mantra of empowerment propelling them forward, are expected (by whom?) to have kids, bring them up, cook and clean, while also meeting the demands of a business life?
I have some advice to the well-meaning council, whose recommendations include taxpayer initiatives to redress the imbalance women face. Start with two words that don’t cost anything: equal partnership — in raising children and maintaining the household.
Dorothy Lipovenko, Westmount, Que.