One of my neighbors is a public defender. She’s one of the
smartest, most compassionate people I know. I have a lot of friends who are
nurses, and a lot more who are school teachers. I don’t believe any of these
women chose their careers because they hoped for money, power or fame. In fact,
I’m pretty sure they decided to become teachers, nurses and public defenders
because they wanted to live in a world where children get a good education, where
the hurt and sick are comforted, and where the accused have the right to legal
counsel. There are men in all these fields, but it’s been my experience that
most women tend to chose positions for reasons that have very little to do with
the size of the paycheck. No one’s offered to pay me to be a homemaker. I just
wanted my kids to grow up in a home that has one.
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