Monday, 18 June 2007
'Sex, City and Me'
Last night we watched the Sex, City and Me, a one-part drama about a high-flyer city woman who returned from her maternity leave just to found she was demoted and she had to start from scratch and finally lead to a fight for justice. I felt something stuck in my throat while watching it, especially for the scenes that everything in her life fell apart after baby came along... the invisible discrimination at work for being mum, endless row with husband who stays at home looking after baby (with help of nanny) after long hours at work, losing job, relationship breakdown, struggle for the legal case, prospect of never working in the city again... Can't believe institutional sexism is still so powerful even in 21st century Britain.
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Yes it's so unfair sometimes. I often thought it's a good thing that I'm not an ambitious successful career woman, which means it's only natural that I would focus on my family and kids at this stage without worrying about losing too much in terms of career.
Those are the women whose bonus is about half million pound a year. If I were in this sort of position I would probably shift focus more on career. She had determined that the baby would not get in her way on her career, but reality is brutal. One thing striked me about this drama is how vulnerable the life is, one part of the life (in her case, work) callaped, the other parts followed like domino...
for most of us Mrs Average, the choice are probably the same, I wouldn't insist to focus on an average career after baby.
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