There was never a time in my life — that I can recall, at least — that I didn’t expect to go to college and have a career outside the home. It wasn’t that my parents insisted on this; it was just a foregone conclusion. My mother — and grandmother and great-grandmother — had all attended college.
My grandmother was, at various times, a teacher, a sales clerk, and the Postmaster of her small town. Plus, she ran her own farm. My mom obtained a four-year degree and worked for a time before she and my dad married. Once my brother came along, she was primarily a homemaker (I am the youngest of four), though she did return to work part-time once I was nine or 10.
Point being: My female role models came from both “sides” of that whole working mom vs. stay-at-home mom divide — which may be the reason I never bought into the “us vs. them” mentality regarding women and the…
