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Re: successful women

@Nisha25

i think the issue is of happiness and not of gender equality, a career makes a woman a happy woman, b/c there are many housewives that suffer from depression. sometimes a woman does need something of her own to be happy and proud of. like hobbies, an online business, etc

The surveys apparently say that women feel they would be happiest with a mixture of housewife/career-woman or that given a choice, they would be happier staying at home. There are many women suffering from depression but that is not exclusive to either category of women.

@Nisha25

kids and husband are of course a great source of happiness for a woman but for both men and women there needs to be something that gives them an opportunity to enrich themselves. a man gets to go to work and interact with different people every day and improve his skills, if a stay at home mom had a way of enriching herself and keeping herself happy that is also success.

Agreed. That is definitely true. We all need something to do; some people are happy sitting at home and reading books while others need to be in a board room. So yeah, whatever your definition of happiness is, you should go for it.

@Nisha25

it’s these assumptions that both men and women have about a career woman and stay at home women being and thinking in a certain way that’s wrong. CM made a pretty big assumption by saying that career women look down on stay at home moms which is such a generalization. and the other flaw in his reasoning was that he assumed that a career woman didn’t see family/kids as a source of happiness. wrong and a major generalization.

It is the OP that made the assumption, not CM. He laid out the assumptions of the poster and for a large majority of the general public. People do assume that once those factors are fulfilled, a man or woman is unsuccessful or not. Also I don’t think he implied that they don’t see family/kids as a source of happiness. He is talking priorities. To go for or against our innate gender roles, we must be passionate about something and that is his POV. I agree.