Today I watched the movie CJ Walker on Netflix. It's about a black woman who goes from a simple poor washerwoman to a successful entrepreneur, owner of a cosmetics company. During the process, she loses her husband because she doesn't have time for him and doesn't really involve him in the company's decisions, she gets sick, her daughter gets married but she also gets divorced, he chooses to help her in the business, but he announces that he doesn't intend to marry again or give her any grandchildren. She ends up living next to a great business magnate, has an impressive house and estate, a business with 10,000 employees, success, appreciation and lots, lots of money.
However, the movie subtly conveys the idea that a woman who leaves the kitchen and the pot risks being left without a family, husband, health and dying young. A series of programs that I can't agree with. Why couldn't we have them all?
I decide to make a list of what Madame CJ Walker gains and what she loses. Here it is:
Gains: money, success, home/wealth, recognition, respect, a successful business, and decision-making power
Lose: family, husband, grandchildren/offspring, health, long life.
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