It begs the question whether it is even accessible or feasible for all women to practice the message of this book, as I assume the writer may have intended, or if as I suspect the target audience of this book is a small minority within a minority who have the luxury to not have to ‘protest’ or ‘legislate’ against their unequal treatment - the only obvious obstacle they face is being women. ‘It may just be better for your health and your wealth to marry a man than to act like one.’ Why should I ‘reward’ a man with my youth just for financial security? Why should older and younger women be pitted against each other for such a small pool of *probably* undeserving men? In my mind a woman’s value is immeasurable. As someone who has just entered their early twenties, I found it difficult to connect to the fear of being replaced by a ‘younger model’, it just seemed like internalised misogyny and ageism. However, if we breakdown that group of women we are further paid less depending on our race, if we’re older and or disabled, a combination of all three will result in even less pay comparatively.
It is true, at work women are paid less, within the book the author found that from the ages of 25 to 60 a woman earns $225,000, whilst a man earns $750,000, which is triple of a woman’s lifetimes earnings. Nor will we prevent men from hitting the restart button at 40 to grab the jackpot of an energetic, young wife with gravity-defying boobs.’
‘We girls can’t and won’t protest or legislate our way out of inequality in the workplace.
The book encouraged women to aim for the best deal in a game designed for us to lose, the authors state: I found it interesting how the writer managed to repackage the system they lived in before the women in their socio-economic class (middle class), decided they needed liberation and that they wanted to ‘work’ and be treated equal to men, despite poor and working-class women at that time already working, tending to the home and their children. As a reader from a different cultural and socioeconomic background, where this is the norm - but dare not said aloud.
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