{"id":415,"date":"2017-07-29T14:42:11","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T20:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/professionoffaith\/?p=415"},"modified":"2017-07-29T14:42:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T20:42:11","slug":"this-is-how-women-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/professionoffaith\/2017\/07\/this-is-how-women-work\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is How Women Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

This is how it works.<\/p>\n

This is how we work.<\/p>\n

This is what women\u2019s work looks like.<\/p>\n

Working women, working mothers, full-time mothers all know. This is what it\u2019s like to be a woman.<\/p>\n

OBGYN assists emergency delivery while in labor herself<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t mean that the world expects it of us, although it often does.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t mean that all women are this self-giving, although they almost<\/em> all are almost<\/em> that self-giving almost<\/em> all the time.<\/p>\n

I mean that every woman I know who reads that headline will nod, smile, and say, \u201cOf course she did.\u201d<\/p>\n

Post Script:
\nAfter writing this post\u2013initially a very brief one\u2013I started looking online for images to illustrate it. Do you know what \u201cthe internet\u201d says pregnant women look like? Women staring at their beautiful round bellies, perching their hands delicately and lovingly thereon, maybe gazing adoringly into the dad\u2019s eyes, maybe holding a docile toddler\u2019s hands gently and lovingly over her own, maybe contemplatively staring off into the sunset, floral maternity dress blowing elegantly in the breeze.<\/p>\n

None of them (at least none on the first twelve pages or so of results) showed one lecturing in a classroom, waiting tables, performing surgery, mopping up kiddie (or kitty) vomit, digging new garden rows, giving swimming lessons, serving Eucharist, arguing in a courtroom, balancing a checkbook, teaching a preschooler to read while a toddler pulls at her shorts or at her hair, teaching a roomful of other<\/em> women\u2019s children how to read or how to run a mass spectrometer or how to love their neighbors.<\/p>\n

Contemplative, elegant, floral, leisured.<\/p>\n

No.<\/p>\n

No, that\u2019s not<\/em> how it works.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not how we work.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Working women, working mothers, full-time mothers all know. 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