The Challenges Of Young Women In America

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Kat Graham once said, “There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even sexier.” Women have to fight for what they want to be in life. Many people call the life that we live in “a man world,” however it is not just a man world it is also a women world too. Many thing can be blames for the image that makes people believe that women should live up to. There are also many issues facing young women in America today: employment opportunities, violence against women, and women health.
For example, employment opportunities is as challenging for women everywhere. Women use to be just housewives and later in time this
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When people think of men they think of alpha. People think men as leader, strong, Confident, and Dominant. When people think of women as omega. People think women are weak, follower, and submissive. Many are taught this and because of this there are a lot of women that are insulted. Many insulters have in their mind that women are not that strong and that they can easy defeat them in a fight and make them submissive, however that is not the case. Women can be just as smart as men or just as strong if they put their mind to it. Just because the image of women seem weak to some people, but a women is just as strong. The best way to solve this problem is to teach people young that everyone is equal and violence is never the answer. Show the youths the consequences of their action if they we to see use violence on women or on anyone …show more content…
There are many women that have anorexia. Anorexia is eating disorder which causes people to fixate about their weight and what they eat. Many people that have anorexia, they tend to worry having a distorted body image, with an unnecessary fear of being overweight. When watching television or reading a book people tend to see an extremely skinny model, which make people what to live up to or make their goal. However there are a lot of female that make themselves sick by trying to reach this goal and it also cause some of them to have depression. The best way to avoid issues like this is to make realist goal on social media that people can meet. Also to have picture, films, or clips of things that would make a person free good about them self like the dove comical that shows women of different sizes that they are beautiful. Another thing that helps show women that they are beautiful is a store that open in New York City called the Period Shop which help women not to be ashamed about having their period. This help by having female not be embarrass about things that for natural for them and have them not use pills to try to postpone their period and or mess-up their period cycle and cause trouble to their

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