Are women victims of widespread discrimination – Part 6
Remember the women voices that cried out for women’s rights, where have they gone? Have they died, and being dead, taken their vision and voice to the grave with them? Parents typically want their children to have a better life than the one they had. Those women did an outstanding job to gain women’s rights so that their daughters could have the kind of life that wasn’t an option for them. Women do have the rights now that women of yesteryear prayed and fought for, but we still haven’t taken full advantage of them. Our mothers seemed to have all walked the same path, carving a deep trench for us to follow and not be able to get out of; in other words, they created roles, or parts, that we are expected to play in our society. Schroff states,
Despite the 20-year-old federal mandate for gender equity in schools, despite
feminism’s many effects and despite Hillary Rodham Clinton’s groundbreaking activism in
the White House, society’s gender-sorting machinery still grinds away, steering girls
forcefully into outdated female roles. Its grumblings can be heard throughout a girl’s
everyday world; at playtime, in television programming, even in the guiding words of
well-intentioned parents and teacher.
It is our job, now, to fight for our daughters so they too can have better lives than us. It is our job to continue the fight, not for rights, but for equality. Fighting for equality will not be easy; there are no laws that can be passed to change people’s beliefs. The only way we will win the war with discrimination is through the raising of our children.
Girls are raised differently than boys; they usually get Barbies, babies, and easy-bake ovens. By not opening all options, we are teaching them that they have a duty to maintain that feminine-like role when they become adults. Children see what’s going on around them – what jobs are male-dominated and what jobs are female-dominated. When girls play, they pretend to be nurses and teachers. When talking to a parent, Cate replies, “I don’t believe that you’re telling your daughter that she can be a doctor if she wants to will make her believe it, because I don’t believe that the ‘idea’ girls-can’t-be-doctors means much more than that we live in a society in which people talk about doctors as he. Just nurses are she”. Our daughters are getting mixed messages; we tell them they can be doctors, but we refer to doctors as he. We need to do more than just tell them
There Are Many Womens Health Centers To Choose From
There is an urgent need for education, clinical care, research as well as advocacy of health care for young girls as well as young women. To meet these requirements there are many womens health centers and one such womens health center is Womens Health Clinic which is located in Winnipeg, Canada.Providing a Comprehensive Range of Health Services to WomenFor those women who live in New York, there is the Iris Cantor Womens health center which provides comprehensive healthcare services that have specifically been designed for women and is the first of its type and scale in the city of New York. Its physicians are also full-time faculty members at Weill Cornell Medical College.Whichever womens health center one chooses it should have the right combination of specialists since they would be able to treat women for serious breast or gynecological problems. This may involve their having to see numerous doctors that could range from imaging doctors to surgery to internal medicine.
The womens health center should bring the patient and doctor close to each other. The center should even have an interdisciplinary approach that would mean that physicians from different medical specialties, as well as nurses and other related health personnel are able to collaborate to provide improved patient care.
A center also enable the women to come to the womens health center and be treated for menstrual, breast as well as hormonal concerns and those other health areas that are specific to women. Indeed, women should be able to receive the full complement of health services that could also be customized to meet individual needs.
Plus size women fashion tips: What not to wear – Part 9
Well shouldn’t we all by now know what not to wear? Haven’t we all watched those television shows addressing the common sense rules of what not to wear; read all the magazines and perused the latest advice on this subject offered by so called experts on the subject. Of course we have. Likely we have done so more than most. If you are like me you have probably been left wondering the same thing, can you follow the same rules that those women who are not blessed with the same dimensions we are? Do those rules apply to you? Or maybe you wonder, just when will someone provide us with some simple rules to follow that are not relegating us to ugly, shapeless, all black, or other fade into the background clothing; or on the flip side of this scenario those bold as you please prints that seem to grow profusely across our bodies in colors and flora that are not found anywhere in nature providing a map of our terrain that would have been better left uncharted.
Do you sometimes wish, as I do that someone would consider that millions of us do not stop at the rack of size 0 to 8. When you watch those fashion make-over shows, do you wish that just one in every one hundred there was someone who faintly resembled you? When you walk into the stores that are supposed to specialize in clothing that is your size do you want to see the mannequins’ actually wearing clothing that hasn’t been pinned in back? Or even better do you wish that in the department stores, way back hidden in the back where they sell Plus sizes the mannequins’ were actually dressed and accessorized in clothing that you could find in that section of the store. I say yes to all of this.
Unfortunately retail, whether on-line or brick and mortar has not fully caught up to those of us who are blessed with dimensions on the fuller side. So we have to rely upon our mirrors, our friends, each other, and some sensible “rules”. Here are mine for all occasions.
Daywear (unless you are at the gym)
1. No gym shorts.
2. No stretch materials
3. No shinny materials
4. No bulky or over large shirts
5. No ankle socks with gym shoes
6. No spandex anything
7. No sweats
8. No flowers, animals, cartoon characters, or message t-shirts
9. No yoga pants
10. No pajamas or anything that could be mistaken as lounge wear
11. No flip flops
12. No stretched out of shape sweaters
13. No torn jeans
Work Wear
1. No Muumuus
2. No high-waist pants or skirts, especially if they have
