Real Femininity for Real Women

70% of mothers work according to a book I'm reading that's written by a feminist, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese. Does radical femininity state that all women need to stay home, cook, clean, and mind the children?

NO.

Radical femininity changes the heart. If changing your heart makes you realize that God wants you to do those things, then wonderful! If changing your heart improves your relationship with God, your husband, and your kids, but doesn't put it in your heart to quit working, wonderful!

Femininity is not about actions. It's about the heart. Your actions will change when your heart changes. The Bible says, "faith without works is dead". Works flow naturally from a righteous heart. When your heart seeks God's will, as a feminine heart does, then the things you are supposed to do to be feminine will become obvious to you.

Many women feel the need to work because money is tight. For our family, I don't work and God provides. Customers of my husband's business have given us furniture, clothes, and gift certificates to grocery stores. In other families, God doesn't ask that sacrifice. Another woman's sacrifice, like my friend Michelle, is to leave her newborn in daycare and go to work. Single women and single moms don't have a choice. They have to work.

The perfect housewife isn't necessarily feminine, although she has domestic skills. Femininity is a relationship with God that affects every other relationship in your life.