I am to an extent. Of course I believe that women should have the same rights as a man. I believe in equal pay for equal work.
But, around here, I don't see this inequality that some of you seem to see. My supervisor is a woman, her supervisor is a woman and the VP of the campus is a woman. A woman that rose from first year instructor to campus VP in 10 years. Other male VPs took much longer to get there. Her mother was an elected person of power and was great at what she did. She is still a very strong and influential woman. My mother and my grandmother were business owners in their own right. Their husbands were also but Mom and Grandma owned successful businesses of their own.
Maybe its just the people around me, I don't know but I haven't seen any glass ceilings for women. I do not believe that women in the US are oppressed.
As women, though, we should be looking worldwide for how women are treated in other countries. I mean, here we are talking about seat belts and where to put a purse, they can't drive a car or go to school or have a job. They are seen as property, owned by their husbands. Yeah, I think US women have it pretty good.
I totally agree with you, but it is all relative. Yes, American women are much better off than women in many other countries; I think we can all acknowledge that. We have many freedoms that others do not and that is incredibly sad. However, we still have a long way to go to achieve full equality, or to use the more accurate term, equitability (because, due to inherent differences between the sexes, in some ways it is not possible to have true equality).
The discussion of seat belts and purses was just an example of systemic discrimination we all face. And sorry, but I think seat belts are quite important, since they could potentially contribute to my death.
You're in education, though, aren't you? That is a heavily feminized profession, and one that is both philosophically and practically inclined to egalitarian thought. Many fields simply aren't that way.
We're in the middle of a national push to promote the trades over college as college becomes less and less affordable for the working and middle classes. But try getting a job in a trade as a woman. There is an immense amount of hiring bias that the "me too" movement is only further entrenching, as men in male-dominated fields now see women not only as less capable and/or as an intrusion on their masculine workplace culture but also now as a lawsuit or scandal waiting to happen. My son just moved into his second professional position in his trade and he has yet to have a female instructor or coworker. He has one female classmate who he freely admits is a much better student than him but who has been passed over for internship after internship even as all of the guys in his cohort have their summer work lined up.
At the statistical level, there is no arguing about the discrepancy in leadership by gender. Alabama, which is the most recent state to pass an abortion ban, has only had 9 state senators in over 200 years of history. Michigan isn't much better - it was the first thing my group of students noticed when we visited the state capitol in 4th grade, that on the yearbook-style portrait of the current legislative class there were only 4 or 5 women (out of 150). As someone posted up thread, there are more male CEOs named John than women at the head of Fortune 500 companies. Study after study shows an evaluation bias when resumes bear a feminine name as compared to a masculine one. Rape within marriage wasn't a crime until about 20 years ago, and rape and domestic violence prosecution and conviction rates remain among the lowest across our entire criminal justice system. These abortion laws are an excellent example of the persistent second-class status of women in the U.S. - by the laws recently passed in Georgia and a handful of other states, a woman who aborts a pregnancy conceived from rape would serve more time in prison than the man who attacked her (assuming he was convicted at all and actually sentenced to jail time, unlike the Brock Turners of the world). Yes, women in many other countries have it worse. But that doesn't erase how far we have to go to have actual equality in this country.
Indulge me in a little hypothetical here... What would you think of someone making this argument on the basis of race? Arguing, say, that racially-biased policing or failing public schools or Flint's lead-tainted water aren't things that black Americans should complain about or want to see improved because at least they aren't caught in the middle of some African civil war or living in a Sierra Leone slum hoping they won't fall victim to the next ebola outbreak. Or telling American Jews not to be upset by anti-Semitic graffiti or the occasional attack on a temple because they could be in Syria, worrying that the Islamic State will put them to death?
There is always someone that has it worse. That doesn't mean we shouldn't want better, for ourselves AND for those others.
And they make products to fix the problem with seat belts. Its not that big of a deal and just not discrimination. The problem isn't that you are a woman, its that you are smaller than the design. If they make them fit the smaller size of most women, how will the belt then fit a larger man?
You're in education, though, aren't you? That is a heavily feminized profession, and one that is both philosophically and practically inclined to egalitarian thought. Many fields simply aren't that way.
We're in the middle of a national push to promote the trades over college as college becomes less and less affordable for the working and middle classes. But try getting a job in a trade as a woman. There is an immense amount of hiring bias that the "me too" movement is only further entrenching, as men in male-dominated fields now see women not only as less capable and/or as an intrusion on their masculine workplace culture but also now as a lawsuit or scandal waiting to happen. My son just moved into his second professional position in his trade and he has yet to have a female instructor or coworker. He has one female classmate who he freely admits is a much better student than him but who has been passed over for internship after internship even as all of the guys in his cohort have their summer work lined up.
At the statistical level, there is no arguing about the discrepancy in leadership by gender. Alabama, which is the most recent state to pass an abortion ban, has only had 9 state senators in over 200 years of history. Michigan isn't much better - it was the first thing my group of students noticed when we visited the state capitol in 4th grade, that on the yearbook-style portrait of the current legislative class there were only 4 or 5 women (out of 150). As someone posted up thread, there are more male CEOs named John than women at the head of Fortune 500 companies. Study after study shows an evaluation bias when resumes bear a feminine name as compared to a masculine one. Rape within marriage wasn't a crime until about 20 years ago, and rape and domestic violence prosecution and conviction rates remain among the lowest across our entire criminal justice system. These abortion laws are an excellent example of the persistent second-class status of women in the U.S. - by the laws recently passed in Georgia and a handful of other states, a woman who aborts a pregnancy conceived from rape would serve more time in prison than the man who attacked her (assuming he was convicted at all and actually sentenced to jail time, unlike the Brock Turners of the world). Yes, women in many other countries have it worse. But that doesn't erase how far we have to go to have actual equality in this country.
Indulge me in a little hypothetical here... What would you think of someone making this argument on the basis of race? Arguing, say, that racially-biased policing or failing public schools or Flint's lead-tainted water aren't things that black Americans should complain about or want to see improved because at least they aren't caught in the middle of some African civil war or living in a Sierra Leone slum hoping they won't fall victim to the next ebola outbreak. Or telling American Jews not to be upset by anti-Semitic graffiti or the occasional attack on a temple because they could be in Syria, worrying that the Islamic State will put them to death?
There is always someone that has it worse. That doesn't mean we shouldn't want better, for ourselves AND for those others.
Sorry, cannot agree on the abortion laws and that is one of the things that keeps me from truly being "a feminist". I believe the new laws are protecting the rights of the unborn. And rather than the laws pushing women to second class status, it pushes the child to human status. Just my belief.
Should we talk about gender bias in medicine? https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog...ies-in-experience-and-treatment-2017100912562
Or should we not open that can of worms because a woman in another country is being treated worse by men.
We can't control how women are treated in other countries. We can try to educate and help them, but we can't control the actions of others. We can work on equality here in our country, though.
I don't like abortion. I like to think I'd never have one myself. However, banning abortion doesn't actually do much to stop abortions, it just makes them less safe. The best way to reduce abortions is to have free and open access to birth control, comprehensive sex education, and social supports in place that make it easier for a woman to raise a child (free/inexpensive medical care/education/child care/etc.).
Instead we have Ohio trying to ban birth control along with abortion, which would also harm women who aren't even using birth control for contraception (like myself).
Doctors can treat their patients to the best of their abilities and overlook things, misdiagnose things, etc. simply because their training and most of what's widely understood about many conditions relate directly to male patients and does not always translate directly to a female patient. That's not a new concept.
Suggesting that the entire problem is all down to women not taking responsibility for their own health care or simply a doctor being biased against women or a doctor willfully treating women patients differently and it's the fault of the patients for accepting it is willfully misunderstanding or willfully mischaracterizing the problem. Decades of the science of medicine prioritizing the male model as patient presents a tremendous risk to women's health. There's a lot of catching up to do on this front.
I am not suggesting it is the fault of the patient. I am suggesting that patients need to pay attention to the care they are receiving. And that if they feel they are being discriminated against for any reason, speak up.
Of course I am a feminist. Every woman should be.
Sorry, cannot agree on the abortion laws and that is one of the things that keeps me from truly being "a feminist". I believe the new laws are protecting the rights of the unborn. And rather than the laws pushing women to second class status, it pushes the child to human status. Just my belief.
As for rape and domestic violence crimes being prosecuted. I don't keep up with stats on those things but I will say this, it seems that what has happened is that all a woman has to do is claim something and its taken as truth. There have been many cases of just that happening and the man ending up in jail or at least a charge that he has a very hard time coming back from. I don't know the answers as I know not believing the woman isn't the way to go either. But, just another of those pendulums that swung too far the other way. And I am sure many here could come up with many cases of women not being believed and that is not fair and should be rectified too. So perhaps its not a equal rights things so much as a legal thing and each case should be looked at to see what went wrong.
There is free and open access to birth control. Go down to the health department and they will give you all you want. All of those things--medical care, education and child care are given to women below a certain income level. The only thing on your list is maybe sex education.
I am not suggesting it is the fault of the patient. I am suggesting that patients need to pay attention to the care they are receiving. And that if they feel they are being discriminated against for any reason, speak up.