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Here we go again - Women just aren't "allowed" to be stand up for themselves.
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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 435528" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I was into astronomy in a big way when I was little. Some of the first books I read were about astronomy. But when I was asked what I wanted to be when I grew up? "An astronomer's helper" because of course, girls would not be allowed to be astronomers...</p><p></p><p>As time went on I became more interested in biological sciences. My mother went to great lengths to tell me I could be whatever I wanted to be. My father had wanted to be a teacher like his older brother, but the Great Depression hit hard and he had to leave school early and go out to work at menial jobs to support the family. My mother was expected to leave school to care for her parents - she was about 13 at the time. No chance of ever getting back to school. So both of them urged me to go to uni if I could. But despite them saying, "You can be whatever you want to be," when I left school and uni was looking far from certain, they wanted me to get a job in a bank because it would keep me occupied until I got married - when I would, of course, relinquish my job to someone unmarried, because it was considered immoral for a woman to be in the workforce after she married. Luckily I got into uni, but my first career path was teaching, because at least teachers, even female ones, were permitted to keep working after they married. Even after they had kids.</p><p></p><p>I am so glad things have improved!</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 435528, member: 1991"] I was into astronomy in a big way when I was little. Some of the first books I read were about astronomy. But when I was asked what I wanted to be when I grew up? "An astronomer's helper" because of course, girls would not be allowed to be astronomers... As time went on I became more interested in biological sciences. My mother went to great lengths to tell me I could be whatever I wanted to be. My father had wanted to be a teacher like his older brother, but the Great Depression hit hard and he had to leave school early and go out to work at menial jobs to support the family. My mother was expected to leave school to care for her parents - she was about 13 at the time. No chance of ever getting back to school. So both of them urged me to go to uni if I could. But despite them saying, "You can be whatever you want to be," when I left school and uni was looking far from certain, they wanted me to get a job in a bank because it would keep me occupied until I got married - when I would, of course, relinquish my job to someone unmarried, because it was considered immoral for a woman to be in the workforce after she married. Luckily I got into uni, but my first career path was teaching, because at least teachers, even female ones, were permitted to keep working after they married. Even after they had kids. I am so glad things have improved! Marg [/QUOTE]
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