Is This a Choice That These Women Made?

You call thebo the failed promise of equality, an and in one sense, couldn't we say that these women have all the the choice available to them? So what you are saying is very much the narrative i started from. And as you say, these are women who could make this choice, unlike other women that are unable to make this choice. But the interesting thing i found throughout my interviews is that, while these women made a choice, they also concurrently referr to it as a forced choice. A choice that was forced by toxic work places, work places that were utterly incompatible with family life.