May 14th 2024
Things women can do today that were not possible in the past.
She can choose her own medical team.
She can have a private income.
She can have her own bank account and keep it private.
She can spend that money as she wishes.
She can buy a house.
She can get a loan to buy her house.
She can control her own money without having a man’s approval, whether husband, parent, or lawyer.
She can seek jobs and hold them other than governess, nurse or paid companion.
She can participate in sports.
She can become a man through gender reassignment.
She can get an education further than grade school.
Sadly many women and girls do not have this right.
She can stay single.
She can have children without getting married.
She can choose not to have children.
If she does not belong to a repressive religion she can choose her own dress style.
Sadly some rights are in retrograde.
The Chinese government wants women to drop out of the work force, get married and have lots of babies. They want to take young unmarried women back to the life style of the 1950’s.
They , the government officials are worried that so many young women have seen that getting married and having a bunch of babies is not to their benefit.
As a result the Chinese birthrate has fallen, which displeases the Communist dictators.
Ecologically the lower birthrate is good for the planet. Economically it is bad for a repressive and dictatorial government.
In the US, The right to good health care and right to an abortion has been taken away by the Supreme Court ruled by right wing zealots.
I once knew a woman pilot who refused to learn how to type, so she would not have to be stuck with the business paperwork. Her “office” was the right hand seat in the DC 3 cockpit.
The business was running the plane for sky divers, and she knew that being the co-pilot was more satisfying than typing up papers.
Whenever a repressive government tries to change women’s lives, there is always back lash.
No man should try to rule women, although they have tried over the centuries.
Time to stop that crap, men!