Today is a super productive day! I finished making a skirt from a one-piece, translated a one-page introduction of a scientific paper and had it checked, and wrote two emails. Everything went as planned, although it feels like still at work with a tight schedule.
Today I assembled an old computer and tried to copy data from a floppy disk (FD!). Someone said: "Oh, I thought that kind of thing (dealing with computers) was something that only men can do." It's a woman who said that! It shocked me how deeply sexism is rooted. The way she said so suggested that she had believed it since childhood. I remember my grandmother was saying something similar. Of course not. Women can sure do tecky things, and a lot of them do! I'm not going to criticize her opinion, but that kind of idea fosters sexism and eventually inhibits women's freedom and opportunity. If a women is happy to stay home, cook and clean, it's OK. But it doesn't mean that all women are like that. There are so so many things that both man and women can do!
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