We had an ACS-W meeting last night… it was good. I hope that I can find the time to do the things that we were discussing.
It was the first time that I had been to North Sydney in a long while. I got all nostalgic and went to the Starbucks, then I walked around to the Newsagency (it’s no longer owned by the same people!!) and then it started raining on me so I went to the bar where we were going to have dinner to wait for everyone else…
But speaking of women, I read something interesting this morning…
SOME of Australia’s best and brightest women are the most reluctant to breed, with female academics far more likely to be single and childless than their male peers.
The reason, it seems, is that women are less able to combine the demands of academia with parenthood (link: “Our best women less likely to breed”).
Question… is it that women are less able to combine the demands of academia with parenthood, or that men (or workplaces or spouses or even just families) are less able to adapt to the demands of the household/family/relationships?
I always wondered about statements like the above, where there is a general assumption that it is simply the womans place to deal with matters of family and home.
Isn’t that part of the core issue? That it shouldn’t be assumed that dealing with all of the family/home issues is the responsibility of the woman?
Anyway, your thoughts would be greatly appreciated =)
I’m watching 9/11: The Falling Man right now.
“This is how it affected people’s lives at that time, and I think that is why it’s an important picture. I didn’t capture this person’s death. I captured part of his life. This is what he decided to do, and I think I preserved that.” – Richard Drew (the photographer of Falling Man)
This is a documentary well worth watching, if only because it encourages us not be be ashamed for (or of) the people that had chosen to jump. I think that the public outcry against this particular photo wasn’t fair… but maybe the timing really was all wrong.
The Falling Man – Wikipedia
The Falling Man, by Tom Junod
I can’t do justice to the message that I believe the documentary is trying to convey, but I guess I wanted to share probably the most poignant message that I got from watching it…
“I never thought of the falling man as Jonathan, I thought of him as a man that just took his life in his hands for just a second. Did that person have so much faith that he knew that God would catch him or was he afraid to experience the end up there? I hope we’re not trying to figure out who he is and more to figure out who we are through watching it.” – Jonathan Briley’s sister Gwendolyn
I’m at working… waiting again! It’s almost 7pm and I would love to go home but I got roped into a project at the very last minute and I’m waiting for QC to finish testing…
I’ve been really short-tempered today for some reason and it has been a really big effort to keep the happy face up… Sometimes it really brings me down, having to keep smiling when your insides are boiling. Lol.
Vincent is really into this show called Weeds... and I thought that the whole idea posed a really interesting question.
Scenario
You have >=2 teenaged children and your partner passes away unexpectedly. You don’t have any insurance (or life insurance payout was minimal) and you don’t have any working skills (you’ve been a stay-at-home for the last 12-16 years). You don’t have an extended family or close friends to rely on, and you no longer have any money to send your kids to a nice school, live in a nice neighbourhood and pay for your at least one childs extensive dental work…
If you go and try and get a job, the only one you can possibly get because of your lack of skills is a low paid one, which takes you away from your family most of the time.
What do you do?
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