Why Women Should Not Base Their Identity and Value on Their Work Careers

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🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to my morning monologue.
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0:18.5	Remember, you can hear my radio program daily on Sirius XM Triumph and connect with me 24-7
0:26.2	at Dr.ora.com. In reading your emails this morning and to email, you just have to go to
0:33.1	Dr. Laura.com, sign up for the family and doesn't doesn't cost anything, takes you 20 seconds, and then
0:38.5	you can email. I do read them. I just don't necessarily read them all on air. But it struck me
0:47.2	with a couple of the emails from women who were kind of high-powered worker bees, worker ants, workers, making a transition to being
1:00.3	an at-home parent, at-home spouse, at-home person, as though it meant you had to stay within
1:08.8	the four walls.
1:13.4	That was number one.
1:16.0	Number two, this was the complaint.
1:18.9	I mean, I've been doing this closing in on half a century, and the complaint about men from women,
1:23.7	and the complaint men had, the therapists had to deal with, was that guy's whole identity was
1:30.5	based in their work.
1:34.3	But women are being raised now that their identity is based on their work.
1:42.3	So when their uteri and mammary glands clamor for closeness with their babies,
1:50.4	it's quite a strain.
1:57.3	How did you find out you were valuable?
1:59.4	You got promotions.
2:01.1	You got raises. You got raises.
2:03.4	You got compliments.
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