FOUR Dutch-Australians celebrated the achievements of women with a dance at the International Women's Day event organised by Loddon Campaspe Multicultural Services on Friday.
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The Dutch Australian Friends members wore traditional costume, including clogs on their feet.
Asked about the way women's lives had changed over time, the group's president Anne Janssen said she wasn't sure how to answer because she had stayed at home for the past 19 years looking after her late husband.
Her friends interjected saying the caring role was a valid one to society.
Ms Janssen, who had six children, said she had never worked outside the home.
"I wanted to be home with my children because otherwise you miss out on too much," she said.
"But that's how I was brought up."
She said there was a lot of pressure on younger women who were home makers and had a career, and she respected women who had both, but she was a product of an earlier time.
At an International Women's Day celebration in Axedale on Thursday, guest speaker Yvonne Wrigglesworth said she had felt judged by her mother about some of her career decisions.
Ms Wrigglesworth said having a career and being a mother was a tough job and she believed it was possible to "have it all", but not all at the same time.
She said grandparents were having an increasing role in their grandchildren's lives to allow their daughters to go to work.