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"It's tough being a woman..."
I'm doing a study this summer and part of the title is "It's tough being a woman" We have been asked to come up with our top 3 reasons of why it's tough being a woman. I thought it was a pretty cool exercise, so I thought I would ask you guys. What are your top 3 reasons?
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Re: "It's tough being a woman..."
1. It's tough being a woman and....Keeping up! I feel I have so much piled on top of me that I'm drowning. Keeping up with...Work, school, cleaning house, bills, exercise, yardwork, visiting friends/family, Dr.'s appts, Baby Ben (and the craziness of a first baby)...I could go on but you get the drift.
2. It's tough being a woman and....being pregnant/having a baby. From day one, I worried about what I put in my body and how DS was growing. After 9 months of fretting, then comes delivery and the questions that come with that territory. After delivery, there are billions (okay trillions) of questions that consume me with how to raise my dear sweet child and am I doing it "right"?
3. It's tough being a woman and...having good girl friends. Why is it so tough for women to be friends? I hate that women feel they have to size up their "competition" and compare everything! Ex: I can cook a much better apple pie than she can. I have a nicer car than she does... blah, blah, blah.
Interesting!
1.Career v Children - Women have very different expectations on them for their careers once children are in the picture. For instance, with having a baby, it's *never* even asked if DH will go back to work. And I'm sure that DH has never even thought about if he would or not or even how he'd be treated differently at work or handle all the stuff he'll have to do. I don't want it to seem like I have an a-hole for a DH - he's great. But just sees things way differently bc he's a dude.
2. Childbirth - the ongoing physical stress of pregnancy, birth itself and breastfeeding and dealing w/ a changing body after to me all qualify as tough woman things.
That's all I've got at the moment. I generally like being a woman though, but when you think about it, it's a very different world still for men and women in certain respects.
It is tough being a woman b/c of the guilt I have for wanting to have a career as well as have children. Balancing these two is very difficult and there are not many women that I know who are both career driven and a mother.
It?s tough being a woman because of the changes our bodies go through. From puberty, to menopause and in between our bodies change significantly (I don?t just mean putting on lbs). For instance, our boobs grow, they shrink, and then they are saggy.
It?s tough being a woman b/c I am a very emotional (and even more so since having a child). I find myself tearing up when I tell someone a good, funny, silly story about my child because my heart just overflows with love for him.
Hee, hee...Is it not THE BEST! I am in love with Beth Moore. She is awesome. What lesson are you on?
1. Getting out on your own at a young age - I found this hard when I was 20 and moved out on my own and it's still hard being almost 25 and taking on major responsibilities while some others my age are still out partying and living off of mommy and daddy. I think my judgement and life-changing decisions get questioned more often than they would if I was just a "guy" doing my thing. While others see it as a good quality - being independent and all - there's so much pressure put on women nowadays to hold off on marriage and children, to finish school first and to get an awesome job - that my "not so perfect" life seems wrong to others and I end up having to defend myself, whereas both my younger and older brother were out of the house at a younger age and even with all their more life-altering mistakes and blunders, no one questions them.
2. Pregnancy! I can't say anything about childbirth/raising kids yet, even with my experience as a nanny. All I know is that even though I'm only in my first trimester, this is hard. Trying to explain to others the utter exhaustion I feel all the time and the necessity of going to school and working while I feel nausea or achy. I don't care about the end to alcohol for 9 months or even the sacrifice of my body - it's just feeling like crap sometimes and not having the choice of doing nothing for the rest of the day...because life still has to go on!
That's it for now....I might have a third one somewhere in my brain, but can't find it right now.
I'll agree with coach's first two and then...
It's tough being a woman because of the expectations society puts on women, both high and low. Society still is set in male v. female careers, women are secondary income earners, primary caregivers, the "do-all" person, to name a few. The list of expectations society puts on men are much shorter and for a woman to break through the glass ceilings and stereotypes is often difficult and surprising to most.