The thing that’s always missing from the “women didn’t fight for the right to work they were already working they fought to get paid” is that many women also very much wanted to work.
Women wanted to be lawyers and engineers and chemists. They wanted to use their brains in challenging and interesting ways. They wanted to get the satisfaction from solving problems and inventing new shit and getting attention for it.
I know not everyone is born with intellectual curiosity or drive or determination but some people are and many of those people are women.
Yes and. They still want recognition, payment. Not to have men steal credit for their accomplishments. We've always worked. We just wanted something for us.
This post is already “yes and”ind every other single post I see that discusses that women wanted payment and recognition for their work.
I wanted to point out that women also want to work for work’s sake, because “work” means challenging oneself, accomplishing goals, solving problems, discovering new things, creating and building.
When one of my best friends looked at a single celled organism under a microscope for the first time, she wasn’t thinking “I want recognition and payment for my work”, she was thinking “I want to become a scientist because science is amazing.”
This post is about the fact that work itself has meaning for women, and to stop “I don’t dream of labor”ing yourself out of doing fulfilling jobs.
