Now I realize that is just an idealization. I am best at performing and improvisation, but I recognize its limitations. Performing can be a more risky profession for women if they want a private life or a family. For example, dancers tend to keep on dancing for the first three months of their pregnancy, while the belly doesn t show up, but that s the most risky period to lose the baby. It s very usual for male dancers who are travelling to have children, but it s not usual for females.
Men are more free to have the wife and the kids and go around.
They can go away for two months and say, I m just getting money for the family, I am the good guy. For women it looks like they have abandoned their family. And if men and women are traveling with their kids, for sure that s not what psychologists consider good for kids. It s a circus life. This is unfair to women because they may feel they reached the age limit for having children, but they don t want to give up what they have done for their whole life.