The average American worker gets something like 14 days of paid vacation. In my school, you’d use up ten of those taking care of your kids on teacher professional days, then tack on a couple more for kids getting sick. Hanna Rosin Read Quote
Feminism was about making women’s lives less constrained and giving them more choices. Hanna Rosin Read Quote
NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example. Hanna Rosin Read Quote
Maybe there’s something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type. Hanna Rosin Read Quote
Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions. Hanna Rosin Read Quote
With the Jews, the questions are always open; we’re always questioning. I love that questioning tradition. Hanna Rosin Read Quote
Women have a tendency not to give up realms once they take over new ones. We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem. Hanna Rosin Read Quote
Interestingly, one thing I’ve found that neither women nor men give up on is the idea of men as protectors. Even in cases where the woman is earning more, they’ll often tell me that if there were a fire or something, they would expect the man to be the one to protect them. Hanna Rosin Read Quote
I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure. Hanna Rosin Read Quote
