"She Could Be Anything She Wants to Be" Mothers and Daughters and Feminist Identity
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Abstract
Much of the recent research on feminist self-labeling has been limited to young women-the majority of whom are white, middle-class post-secondary students. This research suggests thatyoung women embrace the politics offeminism but reject the label. There has been little research investigating the extent t o which mid[$ women, who came of age with the women's movement, identzJj asfeminists. Aspart of a larger study, Ontario midlye women were asked to re f i t on their family, Ji-iendship and work lives; t o talk about their health and well-being and their connection tofeminism and the Women's Movement. These women were in their 50s andearly 60sat the time oftbe interviews in2002. Sixty-six women spoke about the impact of the women's movement orfeminism on their lives. They also spoke about theirprecarious, hesitant, complex relationship tofeminist identity. Two-thirds (43) of the women expressed a favourable ident9cation withferninism, although ten of these women qualz$ed their answers in the context of theirpersonalreservations with the label. Two themes emerged t o explain the presence of a feminist self-identity among midlfe women. Thefirst was being the mother of a daughter. The secondwas the exposure t o women's studies courses and feminist theory in post-secondary education. Women who are now at midlife came of age with second-wave feminism. By the time these midlife women were old enough to go to university, the universities were expanding. By the time they graduated, jobs were opening up in nursing, teaching and office work and they became part of a dramatic surge in women's employment. They were the first generation of Canadian women to stay in the labour force after children were born. While employment opportunities opened for this generation ofwomen, attitudes regarding family responsibilities were slow to change. The structure of work organizations, or
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.022 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".