The Importance of Motherhood in Feminism

The average age for first birth in Australia is 29.7. That's older than it was 10 years ago when I was my first child. Virginia has also written about how she gave up a career to raise her kids and how having kids completely changed her idea of feminism. We need to have the freedom to choose whatever path women choose whether it's paid work or staying in the home during their care work they should be respected and afforded prestige. Our society sees paid work as being more glamorous than work in the home and care work. Care work is just not sexy you don't get marketing campaigns and you don't getting people aspiring to be changing nappies, looking after kids when they're