The Impact of Women Uniting

While discussing the feminization of poverty in women which I learned meant that women are disproportionately represented among individuals living in poverty, I couldn’t help but wonder what factors help contribute to this. The wage pay difference between men and women we talked about added to the classification of certain types of jobs certainly does help. I also think that the negative messages we receive about women on a daily bases helps to greatly contribute to the amount of women in poverty. On the first day of school there was a big to do in the news and on the Little Rock School District website about fathers taking their children to school. A new study found that the paternal influence on children has a great impact on how children do in school. I agree that men do need to participate in their children’s education but imagine my surprise to find out on the first day of school only the fathers who took their kids to school got treated to donuts, a luncheon, and got entered into a raffle to win a lot of other prizes. This is a slap in the face to women who year after year decade after decade have done their jobs. The men should be doing this anyway not be rewarded for doing what they are supposed to be doing. This to me means that the Little Rock School District doesn’t value the mother being involved as much as the man. I also strongly feel like they owe me and lots of other mothers a couple dozen donuts. This treatment of women being belittled happens all over the place. Women who stay at home to raise children do not get to contribute to their retirements in anyway so this leads to an overall shortfall of lifetime earnings. Women who do work at home are often made to feel as though males think of them like lazy Peggy Bundy’s. Women who work outside of the home are still expected to do the majority of the work inside the home. While the man can work 40 hours a week and then be done. Women who choose not to become breeders get questioned because society tales us this is not normal but this a fine decision and is personal it should not be judged by society. A woman’s job is quite simply never done. Look at Hillary Clinton and her emails. This happened to previous male secretaries of state as well. It was in the news the men said it was no big deal and the media let it go. This tells me that to the powers that be a woman’s word should be doubted because she is just a weak minded female after all. The continued onslaught of media attention over the emails is sending a very strong negative message about women trying to gain a position of power. This to me says that, “you women are gossipy and can’t be trusted with confidential information.” It is undermining her integrity and is a form of sexual discrimination. This is a pat on the head for the good girl to settle down and play along. Even today when I opened my computer I got an ad that’s said: “Her New Body Made Her Ex Cry, Ladies: You’ve been struggling to lose weight. You Have to read this.” From something called Femme Factor. To me this is informing women that you are only single because you were not quite good enough for a man and too fat. That if we try really hard to please the penis’s in power we will be accepted but even their so called acceptance comes with qualifiers as to what women are and how they should act. There is definitely a double standard in the treatment of women. We are expected to take care of everything without complaint. We are expected to be lady like and not make a stir. We may often be more intelligent than our male counterpart but our respect of his ego lets us play the dumb girl part. We are always told to be good and nice girls while this is a good thing it also cripples us in the male dominated social stratosphere. Women to this day are still not accepted for displaying and or being comfortable with our sexually. We will be called whores for doing so and if we choose not to be sexual we are called teases. We are told often our place in society, “be a lady in the streets and a freak in the bed.” It is sad that no matter how much a woman can do and will do in her life she is just reduced to her vagina. These things do nothing to stop the cycle of negativity that women are seen in and will continue to expand the rate of feminization of poverty.I say we need to remember that we are the very backbone of society and our efforts are not in vain. The low man (see look how easy it is for me to quote the references man has taught me) or the low woman on the totem pole is the strongest because it holds the hole pole sturdy and strong. Women need to gain strength in unity and realize we possess the power to overcome the mighty control of man over us.