You Work Hard For the Money -- Featuring Liv-Glam, Hairoin, blackLiquid,

It's a catchy phrase that was blasted across the airways in the 80's by Donna Summer. "She works hard for the money so you better treat her right." I know many people thought the sexual revolution in the US occurred many decades earlier, with the Suffragettes, and earning the right to vote. But there was more.

Featuring blackLiquid Kaja Earrings

Featuring blackLiquid Gatsby Makeup

Featuring Liv-Glam Christelle Draped Dress

Featuring Hairoin Cronos
Featuring {{BSD Design Studio}} Supermodel Shoe Collector Red Paint

1. Aidoru: Ethnic Dream Necklace

2. Black Ethnik Bangles

3. Glance: Anais

4. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Golden Kiss Matte Lips

5. Candy Nail: Rosy Black

6. Face Paint: Gem Eyes Bronze

7. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

8. In-Pose! taken on site at Image Essentials

Long after women were permitted to vote, it was still unusual for them to work outside the home. In our current age, that seems so foreign but just a little time past in our history, it was very different. Both my grandmothers worked. One was a full time nurse. The other was a part time teacher.

Featuring blackLiquid Kaja Earrings

Featuring blackLiquid Gatsby Makeup

Featuring Liv-Glam Christelle Draped Dress

Featuring Hairoin Cronos
Featuring {{BSD Design Studio}} Supermodel Shoe Collector Red Paint

1. Aidoru: Ethnic Dream Necklace

2. Black Ethnik Bangles

3. Glance: Anais

4. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Golden Kiss Matte Lips

5. Candy Nail: Rosy Black

6. Face Paint: Gem Eyes Bronze

7. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

8. In-Pose! taken on site at Image Essentials

The choices they made to work were not easy. In many cases, the fact that women joined the work force when they did changed the course of US History and in a bigger picture, world history for now and a long time to come. By the time my mother made the choice to work, she was supported and not shunned.

Featuring blackLiquid Kaja Earrings

Featuring blackLiquid Gatsby Makeup

Featuring Liv-Glam Christelle Draped Dress

Featuring Hairoin Cronos

Featuring {{BSD Design Studio}} Supermodel Shoe Collector Red Paint

1. Aidoru: Ethnic Dream Necklace

2. Black Ethnik Bangles

3. Glance: Anais

4. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Golden Kiss Matte Lips

5. Candy Nail: Rosy Black

6. Face Paint: Gem Eyes Bronze

7. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

8. In-Pose! taken on site at Image Essentials

**I could not get over how much the special Red Paint version of the Supermodel Shoe looked like it was designed to accompany the Christelle dress.Featuring Hairoin Alien

But even with support, the rules were different for women in the work force. Cue up the Donna Summer song. A woman went to work, sometimes in a job where her co-workers were all men, did the same job the men did and yet got paid about 30% less then men.

Featuring blackLiquid Kaja Earrings

Featuring blackLiquid Gatsby Makeup

Featuring Liv-Glam Christelle Draped Dress

Featuring Hairoin Cronos

Featuring {{BSD Design Studio}} Supermodel Shoe Collector Red Paint

1. Aidoru: Ethnic Dream Necklace

2. Black Ethnik Bangles

3. Glance: Anais

4. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Golden Kiss Matte Lips

5. Candy Nail: Rosy Black

6. Face Paint: Gem Eyes Bronze

7. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

8. In-Pose! taken on site at Image Essentials

When the laws of the US began to support women's needs for fair pay and other similar controversy, there were people of both genders on either side of the coin, pointing out how wrong (or how right) the laws were and how needed or how much they wasted time.

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1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale
2. Face Paint: Metallic Green Liner
3. [Mirror's Enigma]: Azuka Milk Skintone
4. Chop Zuey: Winter Berries Set
5. {{BSD Design Studio}}: Post Modernism
6. Wicca's Poses

I think it took a lot of diligence to push past each of these hurdles. I also think that while there were some who argued for and others who argued against the whole concept of women in the public sphere working, they each had some rational arguments and some that were irrational. I see both sides.

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Featuring Zanze Debbie Retro
1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale
2. Face Paint: Metallic Green Liner
3. [Mirror's Enigma]: Azuka Milk Skintone
4. Chop Zuey: Winter Berries Set
5. {{BSD Design Studio}}: Post Modernism
6. Wicca's Poses

Even when women won the right to work, won the right to vote, and won the right to do many things that men had been doing for ages, they still faced adversity. Sometimes it was of a very personal nature, other times it was public. 'Women are too emotional,' they'd say.

Featuring Hairoin Alien
Featuring Zanze Debbie Retro
1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale
2. Face Paint: Metallic Green Liner
3. [Mirror's Enigma]: Azuka Milk Skintone
4. Chop Zuey: Winter Berries Set
5. {{BSD Design Studio}}: Post Modernism
6. Wicca's Poses

I think when you put the word "too" in that sentence, that's where the problem lies. Women are emotional. Men are also. Women can deal with emotion differently then men do and when they are involved, they often bring new perspective to old problems and have helped in many work arenas.

Featuring Hairoin Alien
Featuring Zanze Debbie Retro
1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale
2. Face Paint: Metallic Green Liner
3. [Mirror's Enigma]: Azuka Milk Skintone
4. Chop Zuey: Winter Berries Set
5. {{BSD Design Studio}}: Post Modernism
6. Wicca's Poses

When I have a chance to work with brilliant women in Second Life, I love it. I know that each of the designers I represent and some who are simply great friends work hard for the money. I don't know who's at home with them, treating them right, but I hope they feel some sense of accomplishment.

I don't know how many hours a week Ms. B from blackLiquid or Samantha from Liv-Glam... Elke from Hairoin or Zzoiee from Zanze... put in to making their product viable, and beyond that, wonderful and useful too. Each devote a part of their soul to make it work though, because whether you see it or not, each tiny pixel is someone's brilliant creation and beautiful art. We support them when we buy from them. They work hard for the money and I do hope they're treated right.