Women's Issues
Women create shadow hierarchies while pretending to want equality
Claim: Competent women should be rewarded based on ability
Reality: Women who shine too brightly must be taken down a notch
Claim: Beauty standards are oppressive and we want equality
Reality: Deny differences in beauty while creating hierarchies based on it
Claim: Women should live their
... See moreI hesitated because a series of unearned racial and social-class privileges makes my experience of American womanhood an overrepresented outlier, but also because I worried any woman who says she does things just because it feels good sounds entitled and not appropriately—and femininely—deferential and self-effacing.
Jill Filipovic • The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness
For most women between the ages of approximately ten years old to around fifty years old, our nature is cyclic. However, we are raised with the expectation of living and working and behaving like men. We are taught, unrealistically, to expect that the things that fulfil men and meet their needs will also make us happy and contented – and when we
... See moreMiranda Gray • Female Energy Awakening
When we are stressed out, we tend to clench parts or all of our bodies, constricting the natural flow of qi until it stagnates, leading to tissue, organ, or system disorders. In my experience, stress is at the root of most of women’s health concerns. It sets off hormonal imbalance and causes qi to stagnate, conditions which can lead to everything
... See moreClaudia Welch • Balance Your Hormones, Balance Your Life: Achieving Optimal Health and Wellness through Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine, and Western Science
Men can frighten us, other women can frighten us, and sometimes we worry so much about what frightens us that we wait to have an orgasm until we are alone. We pretend to want things we don’t want so nobody can see us not getting what we need.
Lisa Taddeo • Three Women: THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Many mothers look for part-time and flexible work so that they can manage all of this extra unpaid work, but only 10 per cent of jobs are advertised as part-time, with just 1 in 4 jobs specifying any type of flexible working,9 so many women are forced to work in jobs that are well below their skill level. On top of this, part-time work is paid at
... See moreJoeli Brearley • The Motherhood Penalty: How to stop motherhood being the kiss of death for your career
a woman’s mental health postmenopause is usually better than it’s been at any other time in the life of that particular woman, other than maybe childhood.” What. “Is that really true? Is it because our periods stop?” “Mm, it’s more that we aren’t cycling anymore between estrogen and progesterone and FSH. And, of course, in a patriarchy your body is
... See moreMiranda July • All Fours: A Novel
One reason for the social undervaluation of particular work is the association of that work with women – the fact that it is understood to be women’s work.