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This is for all the ladies of the house.

> A woman named Emily, renewing her driver's license at the County
> Clerk's office, was asked by the woman recorder to state her
> occupation.  She hesitated, uncertain how to classify herself.  "What
> I mean is," explained the recorder, "do you have a job, or are you
> just a .....?"
>
> Of course I have a job," snapped Emily.  "I'm a mother."
>
> We don't list 'mother' as an occupation...'housewife' covers it," said
> the recorder emphatically.
>
> I forgot all about her story until one day I found myself in the same
> situation, this time at our own Town Hall.  The Clerk was obviously a
> career woman, poised, efficient, and possessed of a high sounding
> title like, "Official Interrogator" or "Town Registrar." "What is your
> occupation?" she probed.
>
> What made me say it, I do not know.  The words simply popped out.
> "I'm a Research Associate in the field of Child Development and Human
> Relations,"
>
> The clerk paused, ball-point pen frozen in midair, and looked up as
> though she had not heard right.
>
> I repeated the title slowly, emphasizing the most significant words.
> Then I stared with wonder as my pronouncement was written in bold,
> black ink on the official questionnaire.
>
> "Might I ask," said the clerk with new interest, "just what you do in
> your field?"
>
> Coolly, without any trace of fluster in my voice, I heard myself
> reply, "I have a continuing program of research,(what mother doesn't),
> in the laboratory and in the field, (normally I would have said
> indoors and out).  I'm working for my Masters, (the whole darned
> family), and already have four credits, (all daughters).  Of course,
> the job is one of the most demanding in the humanities, (any mother
> care to disagree)?  and I often work 14 hours a day, (24 is more like
> it).  But the job is more challenging.  There was an increasing note
> of respect in the clerk's voice as she completed the form, stood up,
> and personally ushered me to the door.
>
> As I drove into our driveway, buoyed up by my glamorous new career, I
> was greeted by my lab assistants - ages 13, 7, and 3.  Upstairs I
> could hear our new experimental model, (a 6 month old baby), in the
> child-development program, testing out a new vocal pattern.
>
> I felt triumphant!  I had scored a beat on bureaucracy!
> And I had gone on the official records as someone more distinguished
> and indispensable to mankind than "just another mother."
>
> Motherhood.....What a glorious career!  Especially when there's a
> title on the door.
>
> Does this make grandmothers "Senior Research Associates in the field
> of Child Development and Human Relations" and great grandmothers
> Executive Senior Research Associates"?  I think so!!!  I also think it
> makes Aunts "Associate Research Assistants."
>
> Please send this to another Mother, Grandmother, Aunt, and other
> friends you know!  They will be delighted with their "new" position in
> life!