Below I have cut and pasted the response I got from Supermother regarding my reply to an earlier post of hers I am convinced it is Xenia by the writing style/ subject matter etc.
timesonline.typepad.com/alphamummy/2009/02/dummy-mummies-a.html link to the article/ comments
'Most women have always worked. Childcare has never been a job. If your children survived byeond 5 they were normally sent out to work or worked for you or minded sibilngs. This idea that being at home minding a child is "work" is just a bit unusual in historical terms.
I had three children udner 4 at one point adn I agree that is pretty hard labour but it's not really a career choice most women want to make nor do they need to be with the children 24/7. Of course some weren't earning much anyway so they have to take on that dull work because there's nothing else they could do which would earn them more than childcare costs or because they live in sexist marriages with men who want to keep them down.
Why don't I accept their choices? Because every woman who requests flexible working, who works part time, who does more chores at home than a man is making a political decision which has implications on how other women are viewed at work and how children see the roles of men and women. Thus it is in effect a knife in the heart of their daughters and other women. It is not an isolated decision with no implications for others.
When we reach a point where 60% of bankers and the cabinet and direcotrs of PLC are female I will let up. Until you've all in your second careers once you've brought up the 2.4 children, and then had your well paid second career and achieved that for me I will not let up.
And also because work is great fun and you don't see anything like enough articles about women who work full time with large families and love it and make it work. it's just an image the media never chooses to prsent adn yet I know women in the City with 5 - 8 children and like many men they work and enjoy it and have a lovely family life.
Posted by: Supermother | 11 Feb 2009 09:22:12'