35.5” x 29.5”

Framed Giclée Photographic Print on Fine Art Paper

For centuries, women have paid the price of time—time stolen, silenced, stretched thin, and sacrificed. From the domestic sphere to the professional world, women’s hours have been carved up by the expectations of a patriarchal society that values their labor yet denies them equal voice, space, and opportunity. Every moment spent justifying worth, fighting for recognition, or recovering from violence is time that could have been used to create, lead, rest, or thrive. 

Misogyny—whether overt or insidiously normalized—continues to dictate who gets to speak, who gets to rise, who gets remembered. The cost is incalculable. How many ideas never written, inventions never built, art never made? How many lifetimes have been devoted not to personal fulfillment but to surviving systems that diminish and delay women at every turn? 

We lose more than time—we lose generations of brilliance. 

Until society chooses to reckon with the deeply rooted structures of male dominance, the world will continue to forfeit the full power of its women—one second, one life, one legacy at a time.