The Gender Equality Checkpoint

[Lamplighter]

...Great Aunt Alice stayed a spinster (awful word) to further her career
and then look after her parents. She had to make a choice....

My family has one of those on both sides of my family tree.
On each side, it was the the youngest girl.

And even as a kid it bothered me.
Why should the youngest girl be the one who did not leave home
to have her own family, or go to college, or have a career of some sort ?

Now, all my G-parents, aunts, and uncles have passed, except the one on my Dad's side,
and she is 91 living alone in the family home ... even her aged dog has passed.

And it still bothers me - what might have been ...

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