The Way We Live Now: Judging Women

Although women's roles have changed tremendously ......... NO, women will always be treated as third class citizens ... and for black women it's lower... A Change Is Gone Come...

Great Blog.... Sis!!! You keep me thinking!!!

Thanks for your comments Sister Cynthia. Women's roles for all women today are different from the days before the Women's Right Movement when women were considered the same as chattle, but although I think the movement did alot of good (obtaining voting rights and providing women with opportunities to work the same jobs as men) I think that there was alot of harm (women putting off marriage and family, getting abortions when there is no life or death harm to the mother's life, allowing abortions when rape and incest are not involved, etc...)

There is so much wrong.

Although I posted the article, I don't agree with the journalists spin on Kagan making it about being a woman and women's dilemma.
This isn't about women having to choose career over family for me, but about putting the right person on the bench. I'm a working mother and wife who puts my family first, but at the same time I have a career that has given me the experience to be where I am. Kagan hasn't any experience as a judge at all like Sandra Day O'Conner or Ruth Ginburg.



...and let me not forget Sotomeyor who has experience as a judge before being confirmed to the Supreme Court.
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Bro. Clark thank you for your comments to this blog. I would have loved to be further up the ladder with my career now, but there are some things that I can't afford to sacrifice. You have a point that some women do tend to use their career as a crutch not to have a family and I think their marriages have suffered (if they are even married.)

For me, 6 weeks MAT leave isn't a way forward for women who want to have familes and careers. I decided to quit fulltime work to be a decent mom to my kid. It's tough for women unless we have relatives near by or good child care to help raise our kids. I just don't trust other people with my kid. I guess if I did, I'd be that Nurse Attorney that I dreamed of being by now--- having my own consulting practice.

I don't regret a thing though. There is a time and season for everything.

again,

jenFad my inspiration. everytime I see hillary clinton or a pregnant lady giving the news I know that is No progress for the Human Family.

The Family is the most important thing and the Female is the Mother of Family, not the Father.

Bro. Rob you really make me (((giggle))). Are you like this is person--- a real comedian?

jenFad,

if you are between 18-120 and breathing you might think of me as a spiritual beacon bringing you safely home out of the Hurricane.

Ha!

LOL...Jen and Robert, what's that did I hear 2 Tweety Birds...or just ONE?

You know the old saying...IF YOU WANT SOMETHING SAID, GIVE THE JOB TO A MAN. IF YOU WANT SOMETHING DONE, GIVE IT TO A WOMAN.

In my forty-some years in the workplace, working for bosses male and female, black and white, I have definitely found there is truth to this.

Women as profesionals in every field imaginable should not even be a question anymore.

Brother Cow, I agree. The media gives off this subliminal image for women to take a subservient role because it helps to keep a male dominated world. I applaud Elena Kagan for standing up for what is right and for her desire to reach higher.

I fully understand that this is a male-dominated society. But I agree with the concept if male dominance is here to stay it can at least be a domination of what’s fair, right and just.