Judgment of childless women falls heaviest from onlookers, not themselves

Evidence

But you should also look at how the childless woman is regarded. The biological clock is often ticking most loudly in the ears of onlookers, critics. … A woman who stays childless is still an object of curiosity, misunderstanding and dislike. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 228

Categorization

• SEED: An essay angle: measuring feminism’s progress not by the working mother but by the accommodated childless woman
• XREF: Echoes the earlier chapters’ theme that the measurement frame inverts conventional wisdom — connects to: Childlessness prevents real comprehension of raising children — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 2560
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 228