In the 1970’s I was living in government subsidized housing in a large city in Southern Ontario, Canada. My parents had divorced when I was five and my younger brother was three. My father’s dad died two years later. My father lost contact with all of his family and moved out to BC to start over again with a new wife who had kids already. I never saw him again. The rest of his family wanted nothing to do with me or my brother.
It was a time when the Women’s Liberation Movement was at a fever pitch and sexual promiscuity was becoming normal. It was a strange time. While I was told I could grow up to be anything I wanted to be and that women didn’t need men for anything, my mother’s choices made it obvious that this was not the case.
My greatest generation grand-parents significantly influenced me as I lived with them during different periods of childhood.
Educated in Business, the Humanities, and Social and Life Sciences; I became a stay-at-home-mother in my late thirties. This experience has given me an invaluable perspective on women’s lives.
Our cultural, political and social environments affect us individually and collectively in so many ways. This is the terrain I want to explore.
The Well-Paid Housewife 