By Ben McEachenMonday 26 Aug 2024Hope MorningsSocial JusticeReading Time: 2 minutes
One of the best, most outspoken and insightful Opinion Pieces about motherhood was recently shared by Virginia Tapscott.
Key points
- Virginia wants women to “able to choose to be a mother – and only that – and not feel the oppressive weight of expectation to have a career at the same time”.
- The pressure to do paid work as well as give 110 per cent to children is impossible.
- Listen to the full interview with Virginia Tapscott in the player above.
Read all about it here and consider the inconvenient truths and bold insights which Virginia bravely declares.
Wife, mum and freelance communicator, Virginia wants Australia to be a place where you are “able to choose to be a mother – and only that – and not feel the oppressive weight of expectation to have a career at the same time”.
You might feel that such a desire is reasonable, even common sense.
Virginia wants women to “able to choose to be a mother – and only that – and not feel the oppressive weight of expectation to have a career at the same time”.
As you think that, consider the mixed messages and cultural climate of Australia in the early 21st Century.
Then, focus upon the particular pressures, politics and paradoxes of being a mother.
The pressure to do paid work as well as give 110 per cent to children is impossible.
Speaking with Hope Mornings, Virginia said that Australia does not value motherhood as it should – or believes that it already does.
Virginia said the pressure to do paid work as well as give 110 per cent to children is an impossible yet widespread expectation for mothers in Australia.
She explained what needs to change at the policy and social levels for mums to be better supported and acknowledged.
Listen to the full interview with Virginia Tapscott in the player above.
Article supplied with thanks to Ben McEachen. Ben is Hope 103.2’s Mornings host. Ben was a full-time movie reviewer for more than a decade, including for Open House, The Big Picture, The Advertiser and Empire. Before Hope, he was deputy editor of Eternity News.
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