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Originally Posted by Low C Sharp
That's the attitude my mother grew up around. She decided when she was ten that SHE was going to be a doctor. She graduated high school at 15, married a law student at 19, and by the time she was 25, she had the husband, two kids, AND the M.D. She had four daughters, and believe me, nobody ever told us that education was for the men.
Oh, and she transferred to a private school after freshman year because the big state school wasn't academically serious enough. Now that's giving the finger to everybody with the old sexist attitude!
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That is an awesome story.
A lot of people don't understand that it IS possible for a woman to do both, to have a successful career AND a husband and children. The Life Script of "go to college, join the right sorority, meet your future husband, get married, have children, and be a SAHM" got jammed down many women's throats in my parents' generation. It's a perfectly valid life path, but it's not the ONLY path. My MIL followed the Life Script, minus the joining a sorority and marrying a doctor parts. My mother, like Low C Sharp's mother, got married and had children (just the one in my mom's case) and also pursued a difficult and challenging career as a doctor. Some women decide not to get married at all, or to get married and not have children. All valid choices.