Day care is essential to the feminist agenda.
But this acceptance, while impressively unanimous on the surface, masks an underlying question, which can often be incendiary. The question is whether these careers outside the home, this full-time pursuit by women of professional trajectories, is harmful for their children. This was not seen as a sacrifice by the mother, or even as the exercise of a choice, as the social norms of the time did not recognize a fully developed entitlement to work. Today, the same question is riven with complexities. Women are deemed, now, to have a choice.