Our culture dehumanises women by reducing them all to breeders and non-breeders

Women are held back by a culture which groups us crudely into mummy and non-mummy camps; we must not fall into this trap of dehumanising ourselves.

By Glosswitch

(Photo By Women without children such as Jennifer Aniston are perceived to have incomplete lives. Photo: Getty)

Recently my mother told me about an encounter she’d had with one of my former primary school teachers. As is often the case with her, it involved an inordinate amount of boasting:

“I told him about all your degrees and your job and he said ‘ooh, I always knew she was clever’, but I told him it was alright because you’d still had children and were normal.”