Exploring Women’s Daily Challenges: Health, Rights, and Equality

Have you ever wondered about the things women go through daily? To begin, a woman is a harder worker than you think. Men think that they can do better than us, but the truth is there are a few things that women go through that men will just never understand or even be able to comprehend.

Physicians have long dismissed or downplayed women’s sexual and reproductive health concerns. Women who had headaches while they were pregnant were caused by Tylenol, which happened to lead to more pre-eclampsia. It is a pregnancy complication that is caused by high blood pressure and could prevent the placenta from separating from the uterus before the baby is born. Some women in their twenties experienced deep, burning pain during sex, and initially, doctors would tell women that nothing was wrong and the pain would just go away.

However, some women were diagnosed with vulvodynia. Vulvodynia is chronic pain of the vulva, the external or visible region of the female genitalia, in the absence of vulvar or vaginal infection or skin disease. “Research has shown that “It has stated that these women have been prescribed less pain medication than men after their interchangeable surgeries that were performed to control their body mass. Women have admitted that they have felt chest pain, and the doctors have left them untreated.”

Maintaining a healthy pregnancy is not an easy task. A woman’s health is very important to the baby. Women who eat well while they are pregnant and exercise regularly, along with prenatal care, will give birth to healthy babies. Most women have been very concerned about how much weight they will gain while pregnant with the baby. The weight range varies and recommended weight ranges are different for women who are underweight before giving birth. You will be cutting your bad habits out while you are pregnant.

Drinking alcohol during your pregnancy is linked to having complications with the baby. It can cause miscarriages, premature labor, and stillbirth. Getting sick during your pregnancy is normal. A pregnant woman is more likely to become very sick and catch a cold or flu. “Prenatal care is attending all the doctor appointments, and check-ups will help your doctor carefully monitor you and your growing baby throughout your pregnancy.”

Your period may start to change as your body moves into menopause. You may have irregular or heavier periods. Talk to your healthcare provider about any changes in your periods or bleeding. Some women choose to treat their symptoms with hormone medicines, sometimes called Menopause Hormone Therapy. Menopause Hormone Therapy is not for everyone. You should not take hormone therapy for menopause. “Many women suffer in silence because they are ashamed about their symptoms. Talk to your healthcare provider about how you are feeling. Find out if there are treatments that can help.”

Equality and Women’s Rights: Progress and Ongoing Struggles

Women’s rights is the fight for women that should give them equal rights with men. Gaining property rights, women’s suffrage, or the rights of women to vote, reproductive rights, and the right to work for equal pay. Our women and girls will have full access to their rights to equal pay. Land ownership rights and sexual rights, freedom from violence, access to all education, and maternity rights as well. Women have taken leadership roles that have an equal political voice. Women will only have the right to determine their future and are entitled to have a voice of their very own. With 4 million women who are eligible to vote in the West, presidential candidates vie for their attention for the first time.

“Yet girls are still more likely than boys to be out of school (particularly at the secondary level). And although the numbers of women in elected office have risen, they are still only 21.8% of parliamentary. What’s more, women remain at risk in many areas not addressed in the millennium goals, from violence against women to sexual and reproductive rights.” Tremendous progress has made the struggle for gender equality for women who face violence, discrimination, and institutional barriers to equal participation in society.

Women still make 78 cents for every dollar earned by men. Black women earn only 64 cents, and Latines only 54 cents for each dollar earned by Whites. “Survivors of gender-based violence face discrimination when police, schools, landlords, and other institutions fail to adequately prevent violence and also when laws and policies force women and girls to safety and dignity. In the employment realm, law and workforce policies exclude women from certain job sectors and allow them to be forced out the workplace when they become pregnant or return to work after having a baby.”

References

1. American Pregnancy Association. (n.d.). Maintaining a Healthy Pregnancy.
2. UN Women. (2021). Women and the Sustainable Development Goals.
3. Office on Women’s Health. (2021). Menopause Hormone Therapy (MHT).