Effort

Playing the victim

As recently as 1973, women in the United States of America were barred from opening their own bank account. Women have literally been denied equal rights for millennia, and this is only just starting to change. Women still earn only 83 cents on the dollar for every 100 cents a man earns in a role requiring the same training in the same industry.

This is To better illuminate this point, I will use an allegory.

Being a woman in society today is like growing up as a disabled child of circus performers. Your entire life you watch your loved ones performing for crowds, but the best you can hope for probably is to get shot out of a cannon. You are not at very motivated to become a circus performer who doesn’t get shot out of a cannon.

In the same way, society makes it so that, often, the starkest role models many women have are trophy wives. Plenty of counterexamples exist; Serena Williams, Oprah are good ones. However, a wide disparity still exists in that sheer number of

Though media and reality, society portrays being a trophy wife as a promising option to women. So, many aren’t inspired to work very hard at their profession because they plan on just getting a man to do it for them.

I was told by my parents that I could grow up to be anything I wanted. Society told me otherwise. Or, reality proved otherwise, I guess. But, I’ll listen to my old boss Ed and not give up.