Women’s studies journal

Name

Institution

Similarities and differences of current women and those of the past

Based on the differences in terms of roles and position of women in the past and in our current world, women were seen just as a tool and regarded to be less important in the society as compared to today’s society whereby women are seen as instruments of change. As compared to the past, where women were not suppose to hold vital positions in the society like chairmanship, nowadays this is an issue of the past because women of today’s roles and positions are envisaged in the constitution (Unger, 2004). Thus, their assignment into different positions is not by debate but rather an order from a rule of law. The old slogan that ‘woman was to stay at home’ was very rampant and true in the past. This made the women to be seen as housewives hence making them less crucial in improving the growth of the society. On the other side currently in the world, women are incorporated in the economical growth of the nation since they have been transformed in management of the office. Traditionally, in the past, women were not be involved in wars but looking at today’s women have led people into war and have been recruited in the military.

In the past, women never had opportunities in the society to participate in certain crucial jobs. Even currently, women still do not have equal rights as men since they still have very minor opportunities to clinch some of the offices.

Another similarity which is crucial is that, in the present world, women from the rural areas are denied their rights. For example, majority of the women are not allowed to work and get money because it is believed that they could overpower their male counter parts. Similarly, in the past, women were not to carry money or vital documents such as identity cards because they were regarded to be careless and inferior to hold important documents.

Women and girls self esteem issues related to societal pressure

According to the site of dove.com (2013), experiment was conducted among some women based on their self -esteem. The women were asked to describe the way they were looking after ordering them to disorganize their physical appearance such as removing their hairs and most features which are prominent. Thereafter, the women descriptions on each other were sketched down. Later on, they were ordered to describe each other’s facial look. Based on their description, it was found that women were there worst beauty critics. As far as Dove was concerned, approximately 4% of women in the world considered themselves beautiful. To react on this discussion; the society expects women to be extremely smart in order to compete with other women in the society.

Girlsinc.com (2013) website explore that responsibilities and need for girl child to be inspired strongly and smartly in all life situations and participate in making changes in the world programs. As a matter of fact, this makes them to be equipped academically particularly in science and technology. This particular website help girls to manage their financial obligations, handle themselves during their stage of adolescents as well as serve in no- profit organizations hence improving their self esteem status. To react on the above statement, the society does not provide proper education and counseling to girl child especially pertaining issues of adolescents. Since girls and women are vulnerable creatures in the society, they society have tried in empower them academically and economically so as to enable them not to fall a pray in the sexual abuse therefore minimizing pressure from the society.

References

Dove.com. (2013). Dove. Retrieved from http://www.dove.com/CountrySelector/Girlsinc.org. (2013). Girls Inc. Retrieved from http://www.girlsinc.org/.

Unger, R. K. (2004). Handbook of the psychology of women and gender. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.