Starting out, Francine Prose’s writing day was defined by the departure and return of her children on the school bus. I think of all the books, paintings, music, scientific discoveries, philosophy I learned about in school – almost all by men. The conductor Zubin Mehta once said, “I just don’t think women should be in an orchestra,” as if they didn’t have the temperament, or the talent. Even so, she found that the men and women she studied spent about the same amount of time at their paid work. Feminist researchers have also found that many women don’t feel that they deserve long stretches of time to themselves, the way men do.

Source: The Guardian July 21, 2019 07:02 UTC