Comments on: The State of the American Woman

By: M.

M. — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:53:21 +0000

I can relate…personally.

What good does it do society to prevent women or parents from raising our children appropriately? Can’t take off an hour or three here and there for parent-teacher conferences, sports events, kindergarten plays…the worst experience for my child was having to repeatedly send my ILL child to the day care center because there were no other choices for those of us who do not have family support or the money to pay an on-call babysitter because the majority work during those hours.

Why do women still have to choose between a career and raising their children adequately?

It’s ridiculous that school hours have not yet adjusted to family dynamics that have changed decades ago. How many of us workers can be home at 3 pm to greet our children from school? Some other nations parallel school hours with work schedules-with after study programs that benefit both children and their parents. Not in the archaic U.S. I agree policy makers and businesses can do a much better job.

Today’s children are tomorrow’s employees.

By: fredericka

fredericka — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:19:19 +0000

this was a grate post. I think that whil it is good that wemen have work advancment and we have the respect in the work world that we asked fore i also think some aspeces of us wening the baddle of the sexces have caused us to louse the wore so to speek. I am meaning that we have more problums with boddy image now than we did before. Men are wanting stick pens insted of women. I think that our rights and work advancements are grat we wone that. However, we have lost our selves. This is because there are no no more focus on the family as a because every one is working. Because they must. It is sad how minny peopl must work and there kids must grow up on there own. I will say that i am glad fore the movment how i weep fore these other problums thart came up. thanks fred

By: sunflower55

sunflower55 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:23:20 +0000

Well, I had quite a hard time finding this article again to add more. Not surprising, I guess….but, disappointing…

And, therefore, it’s no wonder that there’s no other responses! Not when the article is buried. So discouraging.

But, the facts will still remain the facts.
And denial is not just a river in Egypt. ;>)

I’ll wait to add more. No use wasting my time, when it will only be buried. :>(

Peace!

By: sunflower55

sunflower55 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:15:37 +0000

But, Theresa,
You left out the part about women making less money than men doing the same jobs. And the “pink ghetto” jobs many women are still stuck in today. And how biology – women’s child bearing role – allows American companies to keep women in a “mommy track” while men who have babies never have to make sacrifices in their careers.
And worst of all, how all these things combined mean, necessarily, that older women live in poverty at a far, far greater rate than men do!

Doesn’t sound like a great deal to me. Some power! We work harder, due to the two full time jobs required – at the work place and then at home being mother and homemaker. So, we’re more stressed than ever, (completely ignored in this article.) And then, we get to live our “golden” years in poverty, deciding whether to buy our medication or pay the electric bill this month.

This is not what power is. This is not what equality is either. This situation is still the way it always was. Nothing has changed. We have no “real” power. It’s superficial. It’s a joke. And we women are the butt of the joke – as always.

It’s time to get real. Because, until we do, nothing will ever change. Stop sugar coating life’s realities. Until women’s real situations are vocalized – as they really are for the masses, not the few – we will continue to be held in second place. And that is not equality.

Peace!