By Agnes Lee 李淑娟“No one makes their own way, not really. You’ll need to marry well,” says wealthy Aunt March in the latest film adaptation of Little Women to a niece who aspires to greater self-fulfillment. The dialogue between a publisher and an aspiring novelist is shown as a tug-of-war between the contemporary social expectations and feminist ideology. Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin, raised by her mother and her mother’s female partner after her parents’ divorce, was — until last week — the youngest world leader, and a new mother herself. We need to be able to build a world in which we can all fulfill our aspirations for who we want to be.

Source: Taipei Times January 15, 2020 09:08 UTC