Are women over the hustle culture?
According to Christian influencer Bethany Beal, women are apparently done with working and “over being boss babes.”
The Texas native posted a controversial video on Instagram recently, claiming that women don’t want to be like men when it comes to the workforce — and she was slammed for her declaration.
In her video, the author of “A Single Woman’s Guide to Preparing for Dating & Marriage” noted that women “don’t want to compete with men in the workplace,” adding that “men can have the 9 to 5.”
She also offers her theory that women “don’t want to spend [their] most fertile years chasing a job or degree,” further suggesting that women “don’t want to put career before family [and] don’t want to hustle our lives away.”
“Women want more for their lives, families, and futures,” Beal wrote in the caption of the clip. “We’re over competing. We’re over chasing. We’re over hustling. We’re 100% over being boss babes.”
Beal was blasted for her point of view and, in the wake of backlash, she has limited the number of comments on the post.
“Please do not speak for all women. I value my college education and how quickly I am climbing up the corporate ladder, and I enjoy competition, rather it be with men or women, I also am high enough to essentially be my own boss too,” one user shot back.
Another scribed: “It’s not for everyone just like being a stay at home mom and wife is. I don’t want kids and there is nothing wrong with that.”
Another naysayer said Beal’s words were “crushing and devastating,” adding that she didn’t understand “women who are healthcare workers who are nurses, therapists, doctors, etc. who decide to pursue a career before (or instead of) having children.”
Beal posted a video in which she claimed women no longer want a place in the workforce. Instagram/Bethany Beal
“Women want more for their lives, families, and futures,” Beal captioned her clip. Instagram/Bethany Beal“I’d love to be home more but my family needs my income in order to have a roof over our heads and eat. How long did it take you to make money working from home?… Enough to quit your job,” one person explained.
However, there were some people who agreed with Beal’s statements.
“Yessss I want none of these things !!!💗” one person offered.
“Thank you for this👏❤️,” added another.
“THANK YOU for creating a safe space for those of us who want to be wives and mothers above everything else!” another woman chimed in. “The media pushes us to do everything else, except be a wife and mother… as if that’s less than. I’m a new wife and I can’t wait to be a mother soon, God-willing.”
