The Introduction to Women’s Studies class was very informative and very eye opening for me. There are many things that I learned about women’s history and many of those things are still very significant today for the fight for equality and women’s rights. Some of my favorite topics were matters that I had a personal interest in, as well as my own experiences with. I am very focused on fighting for equality for everyone, especially for woman; with this comes the understanding that we need to inform more women that they are important and that they do have a voice that deserves to be heard. Women should not think or feel like they are inferior beings and women should not live in fear of power or status. Women should instead join forces and help each other, as well as inspire other females around the world. Women are just as intelligent and educated as men, women are just as important as men in the workplace, and women are so much more than objects or pieces of meat that are here to please men. Women should not feel like they are objects that are required to maintain youthfulness and stereotypical beauty in order to succeed in life.
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Women today feel like they must keep up with their appearances or they will be judged and criticized by people around them. This puts a tremendous amount of pressure on women of all ages to maintain an unrealistic expectations of beauty. Real beauty comes from within and people should begin teaching this to our children at a young age instead of programing young minds to think that physical beauty is more important than inner beauty, as well as teaching them that you must appear attractive in order to achieve power and status in life. Women have felt like objects since the beginning of time and have gone to extreme lengths to maintain their idea of what beauty should be. The majority of women believe that they must be young, white, and most importantly, thin to be beautiful. This has led to an enormous amount of women who have developed serious eating disorders such as bulimia or anorexia. These disorders can be very serious and sometimes deadly. According to the book Women’s Feminist Voices, “Up to twenty percent of people with serious eating disorders die from the disorder” (pg 230). If society did not focus so much attention towards people’s weight, than many of those live could have been saved. The unrealistic expectation of beauty has caused many people’s entire lives to change, as well as the lives of others around them. Women and men all around the world are struggling because of they have been taught that outer appearances are important in life, when in fact vanity has nothing to do with how successful and how good of a person someone can become. We could change this way of thinking, and lower the number of people who are diagnosed with eating disorders if society stopped paying so much attention to outer appearances. Instead of paying so much attention to “Beauty Contents” that purely focus around outer appearance, women should be rewarded more for having good character and inner beauty. There should be beauty contests that are judging people based on their inside beauty and character, rather than judging someone’s outer appearance. One way we have begun to step in the right direction recently is by one popular television show. “The Voice” is a reality show …show more content…
Daughters of working mothers are now becoming more successful than ever before and sons of working mothers are contributing to the household more than ever before. There are many reasons for this, but they revolve around witnessing a successful, hardworking mother who was able to provide for their families, and thus changing the children’s way of thinking. According to Ananya Bhattacharya from CNN “Daughters of working mothers grow up to be more successful in the workplace than their peers” and “Sons of working mothers are more likely to grow up contributing to the childcare and household chores” (Bhattacharya). I think that it is very influential for all children to witness their mothers work at some point in time so they are able to contribute more to this changing society. Working or raising a family should be a personal choice that should not be judged either
Women today feel like they must keep up with their appearances or they will be judged and criticized by people around them. This puts a tremendous amount of pressure on women of all ages to maintain an unrealistic expectations of beauty. Real beauty comes from within and people should begin teaching this to our children at a young age instead of programing young minds to think that physical beauty is more important than inner beauty, as well as teaching them that you must appear attractive in order to achieve power and status in life. Women have felt like objects since the beginning of time and have gone to extreme lengths to maintain their idea of what beauty should be. The majority of women believe that they must be young, white, and most importantly, thin to be beautiful. This has led to an enormous amount of women who have developed serious eating disorders such as bulimia or anorexia. These disorders can be very serious and sometimes deadly. According to the book Women’s Feminist Voices, “Up to twenty percent of people with serious eating disorders die from the disorder” (pg 230). If society did not focus so much attention towards people’s weight, than many of those live could have been saved. The unrealistic expectation of beauty has caused many people’s entire lives to change, as well as the lives of others around them. Women and men all around the world are struggling because of they have been taught that outer appearances are important in life, when in fact vanity has nothing to do with how successful and how good of a person someone can become. We could change this way of thinking, and lower the number of people who are diagnosed with eating disorders if society stopped paying so much attention to outer appearances. Instead of paying so much attention to “Beauty Contents” that purely focus around outer appearance, women should be rewarded more for having good character and inner beauty. There should be beauty contests that are judging people based on their inside beauty and character, rather than judging someone’s outer appearance. One way we have begun to step in the right direction recently is by one popular television show. “The Voice” is a reality show …show more content…
Daughters of working mothers are now becoming more successful than ever before and sons of working mothers are contributing to the household more than ever before. There are many reasons for this, but they revolve around witnessing a successful, hardworking mother who was able to provide for their families, and thus changing the children’s way of thinking. According to Ananya Bhattacharya from CNN “Daughters of working mothers grow up to be more successful in the workplace than their peers” and “Sons of working mothers are more likely to grow up contributing to the childcare and household chores” (Bhattacharya). I think that it is very influential for all children to witness their mothers work at some point in time so they are able to contribute more to this changing society. Working or raising a family should be a personal choice that should not be judged either