There has been a lot of talk about the equality of man and women. Empowered women want the same privileges, responsibilities, and roles as men. I have never felt a need or desire to join any movement of these feminist women, for I have never in my life felt like I was less than man.

It is good for women to get paid the same for men for doing the same job. It is good to not be discriminated against because of gender. But I do not desire or seek the responsibilities of men. I don’t want to sign up for the draft, I don’t want the priesthood, I don’t want to have to make a living for my family.

I am a stay at home. And it is not a degraded role I am stuck in. It is career and a calling I choose. I can grow children inside of me, I can feed my babies, and I can care and nurture for them in so many ways. What higher calling is there of being a mother? And no man can grow a child, or nurse. It is a privilege only for women.

So I am not concerned that men are stronger, more adapt at physical labor. I am not concerned that men hold the priesthood and not women. I am not concerned that there are more men in the workplace and in leadership roles.

Because I know I have been given a beautiful life, that is as important if not more so, than any of that. I have the opportunity to raise and shape the next generation. I have never felt like I was unequal to men, many times I have felt more valued.

If women demand the same roles as man, where does that leave men? Already education rates are falling in men. We should encourage them to step up and work to become the providers and leaders of our families, communities and countries. We need them in the more visibility leadership positions, in positions of strength.

So that I as a women can work in a hardly visible, but much more important supporting role. So I can shape my growing boys, so I can create a great Home that all people come back to and need.

I think I can understand that feeling about a housewife’s work being like that of Sisyphus (who was the stone rolling gentleman). But it is surely in reality the most important work in the world. What do ships, railways, miners, cars, government etc exist for except that people may be fed, warmed, and safe in their own homes? As Dr. Johnson said, “To be happy at home is the end of all human endeavour”. (1st to be happy to prepare for being happy in our own real home hereafter: 2nd in the meantime to be happy in our houses.) We wage war in order to have peace, we work in order to have leisure, we produce food in order to eat it. So your job is the one for which all others exist…C.S. Lewis (pg 447-Letter of CS Lewis 1988 ed.

When our lives are over, and if I spent all my time simply giving birth to raising my boys, and serving people quietly as a women, will my influence be less than a man’s? I think it will be greater. Anyone can be a CEO of a major company, but only I can bare and raise my children.