{"id":1085,"date":"2008-08-28T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T21:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2008-08-28T16:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T21:40:00","slug":"to-bake-or-not-to-bake-is-not-always-the-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/08\/28\/to-bake-or-not-to-bake-is-not-always-the-question\/","title":{"rendered":"To Bake or Not to Bake is Not Always the Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SLcPMYu85CI\/AAAAAAAAB34\/V8U5_DVHiRQ\/s1600-h\/images.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SLcPMYu85CI\/AAAAAAAAB34\/V8U5_DVHiRQ\/s200\/images.jpeg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Two news items this afternoon on women, work, and life:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/politics\/ci_10320363\">Women Have Another Who Understands<\/a><br \/>8\/28\/08 Denver Post:  Hours before Michelle Obama&#8217;s big speech, she watched the &#8220;Cosby Show&#8221; cast reunited on Oprah to discuss how their sitcom gave the country its first glimpse at an educated, career-oriented black mom.  &#8220;Americans didn&#8217;t believe there were black families with two professionals,&#8221; Michelle Obama says. &#8220;Sometimes, I feel that people don&#8217;t believe I exist.&#8221;  After her speech, it would be tough not to believe in the authenticity of Michelle Obama. And after talking with her the next morning, I&#8217;m struck by how far we&#8217;ve come since 1992 when Hillary Rodham Clinton dissed half the women in America by saying, &#8220;You know, I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies.&#8221; Obama gets the complicated tug&#8230;.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/politics\/ci_10320363\">Read the rest<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And an odd yet slightly interesting little item on housework:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/opinion\/main.jhtml?xml=\/opinion\/2008\/08\/28\/do2806.xml\">Women Might Like Being Housewives, But Not Every Day<\/a><br \/>8\/28\/08, Telegraph, UK: Feminists got it wrong. Women don&#8217;t want to be bread-winners; they want to stay at home and bake bread. This, at least, is the view of The Yorkshire Building Society, that well known repository of expertise on gender psychology\/publicity-mongering.  The key element to all of this is choice. Scrubbing floors has a therapeutic value as a contrast to a week of sedentary desk-based toil; compulsion would take the shine off, in more ways than one&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/opinion\/main.jhtml?xml=\/opinion\/2008\/08\/28\/do2806.xml\">Read the rest<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two news items this afternoon on women, work, and life: Women Have Another Who Understands8\/28\/08 Denver Post: Hours before Michelle Obama&#8217;s big speech, she watched the &#8220;Cosby Show&#8221; cast reunited on Oprah to discuss how their sitcom gave the country its first glimpse at an educated, career-oriented black mom. &#8220;Americans didn&#8217;t believe there were black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21938],"class_list":["post-1085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-worklife"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}