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To me feminism is about options and choices.
To me, a housewife can be a feminist, because if staying at home is her choice, when she also has the option to work, it should be her choice.
Feminism to me is about striving for equality in legal rights, the workplace, freedom of choice and the right to decide over my own body.
The right to equal pay, to not be fired over pregnancy, or the assumption that all women just want to be mothers, that women aren't weaker and can do anything they put their mind to, if that's their choice.
I view subjects such as abortion in quite a simple way (maybe it's my Dutch live-and-let-live heritage) : If you're against abortions; don't have one, but don't take away someone else's right to decide over their own body.
I know this view is quite simplistic, especially where religion comes in, and doesn't mesh well with the view of some that abortion is murder, but it's was I was brought up with, simply put: if it doesn't harm or endanger others, then it's not up to me to interfere.
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