Resurgance of the WI?

I was amazed today to discover that young women of my generation still hold no ambitions other than to be a housewife & regard this as the perfect lifesyle. Is it excusable, given the huge numbers of oppurtunities & career paths in front of the modern woman, only to aspire to be a stay-at-home mum or a trophy wife? The discussion in question turned to how they would spend their leisure time: days spent at the spa, joining the WI, baking victoria sponges, pruning the rockery, making jam, taking yoga classes & growing prize organic cucumbers which they would enter into the local fete! Oh, & don't forget the charity work (just so they feel like they have achieved something with their lives. Good deed of the day & all that!) - how very noble. I, for one, feel that women through the centuries haven't fought for equality (they even have equal pay at Wimbledon now for God's sake) for our generation to live off our husbands income. The stereotypes of a woman's role being cooking and cleaning have long been broken down. Isn't it far better to be an independant, driven woman who isn't reliant on a man to put a roof over her head? Seeing as the Spice Girls have just announced a reunion tour I feel it is necessary to add a 'Girl Power!'

Thought of the day: 'It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.'