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Homemaking: Where Feminism Stops Supporting Women's Choice
“Women should know their place,” tweeted UN Women, the “UN entity for gender equality & women's empowerment,” earlier this month. “A woman’s place is in the lab.”
By Faith Moore3 min read
The tweet was, of course, supposed to be an empowering statement, meant to upend the “patriarchal” notion that a woman’s place is in the home caring for her family. You’re free!—the tweet seems to be telling us—Released by our magnanimous hand from the bondage of cooking, cleaning, and childcare! Take your rightful place in the workforce. (Oh, and you have to be a scientist, okay?)