{"id":2306476,"date":"2026-03-01T13:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T13:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2306476"},"modified":"2026-03-01T13:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T13:14:10","slug":"women-remain-grateful-to-have-careers-rosamund-pike-says-womens-employment-as-the-default-parent-is-too-easily-derailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/women-remain-grateful-to-have-careers-rosamund-pike-says-womens-employment-as-the-default-parent-is-too-easily-derailed\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Women remain grateful to have careers\u2019: Rosamund Pike says women&#8217;s employment as the &#8216;default parent&#8217; is too easily derailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p id=\"7bf02f8a-d7f7-4ae3-8c5c-568e2b29c32f\">Rosamund Pike has made some really important points about feminism, women&#8217;s careers, and how easily women can find their work life &#8220;sabotaged.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During an appearance on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/m002rq6n\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/m002rq6n\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\"><em>Weekend Women&#8217;s Hour<\/em><\/a>, the actress spoke to host <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.womanandhome.com\/tag\/anita-rani\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.womanandhome.com\/tag\/anita-rani\/\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.womanandhome.com\/tag\/anita-rani\/\">Anita Rani<\/a> to discuss her role of Crown Court Judge Jessica Parks in the National Theatre\u2019s hit play <em>Inter Alia<\/em>, one that explores motherhood and masculinity.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"elk-seasonal\"\/><\/p>\n<aside data-block-type=\"embed\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\" class=\"hawk-root\"\/>\n<p id=\"7bf02f8a-d7f7-4ae3-8c5c-568e2b29c32f-2\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Many women watching the play resonate with the themes it depicts, surrounding pressures on women and the difficulties they experience as working mothers that men do not.<\/p>\n<aside data-component-name=\"Recirculation:ArticleRiver\" data-recirculation-type=\"inline\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Trending Bar\" data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"pt-3 pb-4 mb-4 border-b border-solid border-[#333]\">\n        <span class=\"&#10; 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it&#8217;s easy to visualise the many women who will nod their heads in agreements at having to reschedule their entire working day because of such issues, when men don&#8217;t have to.<\/p>\n<div id=\"slice-container-newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-hBf6REyfHKbndV4ro7ev8P\" class=\"slice-container newsletter-inbodyContent-slice newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-hBf6REyfHKbndV4ro7ev8P slice-container-newsletterForm\">\n<div data-hydrate=\"true\" class=\"newsletter-form__wrapper newsletter-form__wrapper--inbodyContent\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form__container\">\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__top-bar\"\/>\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__main-section\">\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">Sign up to our free daily email for the latest royal and entertainment news, interesting opinion, expert advice on styling and beauty trends, and no-nonsense guides to the health and wellness questions you want answered.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">In the play, her character, Jessica, suggests she is &#8220;living in the cracks of other people&#8217;s needs.&#8221; Of this line, the actress says, &#8220;It spoke to me and it&#8217;ll speak to other women too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"bc8f9934-5d31-4f58-a8ad-aae6095ab486\">Describing a modern woman&#8217;s life as &#8220;frenetic,&#8221; Rosamund says poignantly, &#8220;However far we&#8217;ve come with feminism, women still feel grateful to have careers, and we feel we have to pretend we don&#8217;t have other obligations as well, but we have to do them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Host Anita Rani points out that many women will believe they were &#8220;sold a lie&#8221; about what it means to &#8220;have it all,&#8221; which will also ring true for many.<\/p>\n<aside data-component-name=\"Recirculation:ArticleRiver\" data-recirculation-type=\"inline\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Trending Bar\" data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"pt-3 pb-4 mb-4 border-b border-solid border-[#333]\">\n        <span class=\"&#10;            after:content-[''] after:flex-1 after:ml-4 after:my-[0.7rem] after:border-t-[#333] after:border-t after:border-solid &#10;            before:content-[''] before:flex-1 before:mr-4 before:my-[0.7rem] before:border-t-[#333] before:border-t before:border-solid&#10;            font-article-heading pb-3 !text-base font-bold uppercase sm:text-sm text-[#333] flex custom-thumbnail-list-styles\"><br \/>\n            You may like<br \/>\n        <\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>In the play, Rosmund&#8217;s character not only has to deal with being the default parent, but also with her husband&#8217;s ego &#8211; this becomes especially challenging when she earns more than him.<\/p>\n<p>The actress reveals that women have spoken to her privately to reveal they&#8217;ve had to hide the fact they earn more than their spouse, also to protect fragile egos. &#8220;They don&#8217;t want to take their bonus, because they&#8217;re worried it will create an awkward dynamic,&#8221; she shares.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s so interesting that as women, we&#8217;re still uneasy about owning power,&#8221; she says. The actress was also interested in what her role had to say about raising boys, as Jessica is a mother to boys.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In all the discussion about violence against women and girls, which is something very close to my heart, and something I&#8217;m shocked by the figures and underreporting, we have to be conscientious about what kind of men we&#8217;re raising,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p>Of the importance of the role on her life, Rosamund shares, &#8220;Characters leave a mark on you,&#8221; and in meeting female judges while researching the role, she&#8217;s come to realise they are &#8220;the most phenomenal, thoughtful, kind, clever, wise people,&#8221; who she is completely in awe of.<\/p>\n<p><strong\/><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltheatre.org.uk\/productions\/inter-alia\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltheatre.org.uk\/productions\/inter-alia\/\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\"><em><strong>Inter Alia<\/strong><\/em><\/a><strong> is showing at Wyndham&#8217;s Theatre from 19 March until 20 June 2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.womanandhome.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rosamund Pike has made some really important points about feminism, women&#8217;s careers, and how easily women can find their work life &#8220;sabotaged.&#8221; During an appearance on Weekend Women&#8217;s Hour, the actress spoke to host Anita Rani to discuss her role of Crown Court Judge Jessica Parks in the National Theatre\u2019s hit play Inter Alia, one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2306477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2306476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/\u2018Women-remain-grateful-to-have-careers-Rosamund-Pike-says-womens.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2306476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2306478,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306476\/revisions\/2306478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2306477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2306476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2306476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2306476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}