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Wed 09 Sep 2010Women opting out of the workplace is not a result of choice, but of a lack of it
Motherhood, the bête noire of 1970s feminism, is emerging as the raison d’être for 2010 feminism
WHAT’S REALLY going on with women like Olwyn Enright, who quit a full-time job and head for home? It’s convenient to view her move as an isolated one precipitated by the particularly tough working conditions of a rural politician, or to look at it in terms of “choice” and “priorities”. But there’s reason to believe something more is going on here: that Enright and all the other mothers who quit jobs to care for families hadn’t any real choice at all.
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