LET’S face it, it’s not always easy being a woman who has it all in the 21st century.
Our mothers and grandmothers openly started fighting for our liberation some 50 years ago, paving the way for their daughters to leave their own mark on the world – and be allowed to make that mark.
Bras were burnt, skirts slashed to fanny pelmet-height and the era of free love was declared. Women were introduced to oral contraceptives and, for the first time in history, were able to take complete control of their own bodies.
Since then we’ve lived through Incredible Hulk-sized shoulder pads, blusher overload, leg warmers, blue eye-shadow, Richard Nixon, Cabbage Patch dolls, Princess Di, flicked fringes, mullets, Dallas, tattoos and bellybutton rings.
On the plus side, count Barry White, Brad Pitt’s abs in Fight Club, the return to natural fabrics, hipsters, cell-phones, the internet, online shopping, three-month contraceptive injections, satellite television and stay-fast make-up.
But the new millennium has brought its own set of challenges for women across the globe. This is, apparently, the age of the Super Woman and we all feel the pressure.
We are expected to climb the corporate ladder, shatter the (fictitious, according to most men) glass ceiling, keep an immaculate and stylish home, invest wisely, marry well and spawn one gifted child – the world is over-populated, remember?
Then, or course, there’s the small matter of saving the world in your spare time.
That’s an incredibly tall order, isn’t it? Don’t despair, though.
HELP IS AT HAND.
If you have an open mind, a sense of humour and an overwhelming urge to survive the next few decades, read on…
Our mothers and grandmothers openly started fighting for our liberation some 50 years ago, paving the way for their daughters to leave their own mark on the world – and be allowed to make that mark.
Bras were burnt, skirts slashed to fanny pelmet-height and the era of free love was declared. Women were introduced to oral contraceptives and, for the first time in history, were able to take complete control of their own bodies.
Since then we’ve lived through Incredible Hulk-sized shoulder pads, blusher overload, leg warmers, blue eye-shadow, Richard Nixon, Cabbage Patch dolls, Princess Di, flicked fringes, mullets, Dallas, tattoos and bellybutton rings.
On the plus side, count Barry White, Brad Pitt’s abs in Fight Club, the return to natural fabrics, hipsters, cell-phones, the internet, online shopping, three-month contraceptive injections, satellite television and stay-fast make-up.
But the new millennium has brought its own set of challenges for women across the globe. This is, apparently, the age of the Super Woman and we all feel the pressure.
We are expected to climb the corporate ladder, shatter the (fictitious, according to most men) glass ceiling, keep an immaculate and stylish home, invest wisely, marry well and spawn one gifted child – the world is over-populated, remember?
Then, or course, there’s the small matter of saving the world in your spare time.
That’s an incredibly tall order, isn’t it? Don’t despair, though.
HELP IS AT HAND.
If you have an open mind, a sense of humour and an overwhelming urge to survive the next few decades, read on…
