Witches. How Businesswomen and Moms Became Humanity's Main Enemies

We don’t notice this at 20, we try to ignore it at 30, but closer to 40 we inevitably understand: we’ve been deceived.

No achievements of 20th-century feminists have helped women cope with the endless cycle of household chores, nor with the heap of stereotypes that grow in proportion to the number of candles on the cake. No Taylor Swift song has explained what to do when, being all strong and independent, you reach an age when even a weak and dependent person is not really needed by anyone. No one prepared you for the moment when you go from being the most important person in every child’s life to becoming a “hopelessly outdated mom.”

Constant contributor to Independent, Telegraph, and several other publications Victoria Smith is convinced: we can change everything. But to build a society in which women are not forced to chase ever-changing standards of beauty, where women’s household labor is valued as much as office work, and where motherhood is a privilege, not a humiliating obligation, we first need to recognize: young and old, rich and poor, housewives and businesswomen, we all are members of the largest community on Earth.