I have been enjoying an extended weekend with the family due to the little lady's birthday. It has been very relaxing and the weather even obliged us by being sunny today. Admittedly the temperatures struggled to get above 4 degrees Celsius but hey ho.
As we hunkered down for bedtime on this my last day off before returning to work I asked the little lady to choose a bedtime story for us to read.
She hopped down and grabbed one of her new birthday books. It was.
Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World.
I nodded in approval. I wanted my little bundle of dynamite to feel she could achieve anything, now and when she was older. What better than to read of strong women who could kill with one punch or cryogenically freeze their enemies with their ice glare.
Although it turned out the book was sadly lacking in those kind of women, we did read about Marie Curie, Amelia Earhart & Anne Frank. After these three I thought it best to wind it up and get to sleep. Firstly though we had a little chat.
But why didn't women do the same jobs as men in the past Daddy?
The little lady wondered.
Because lass, in the past, people were silly. It wasn't until the second world war that things really changed when woman proved that they could do the same jobs as men did because all the men were away fighting.
The little lady pushed the book away and looked puzzled.
You ok little lass?
Such big concepts, I could see her processing all this wild new information. She was obviously plotting in her head how to join with her sisters and smash the world of glass ceilings imposed upon them by the world of man.
The little lady made a hmm sound.
Erm Daddy?
Yes my little warrior?
I am not too keen on the world of work. I am actually a bit of a lazy-bones.
Well, we have to work to make money darling?
Her face scrunched up as she thought that one through. Then she smiled.
Well, I will let the Daddy go out and earn the money and I might mow the lawn now and then.
Then she settled down to sleep.
Hmm, not quite what the empowerment I envisaged. I might have to send Mummy bear back out to work to be setting a better example!
