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RE: Me, Women, Our Times

in #life8 years ago

Great and thought-provoking post @natureofbeing! It absolutely blows my mind that more than half of our species have been discriminated against to this degree for so long. Mothers...sisters...wives. My mom worked her entire life but her Social Security benefit is just a fraction of my father's because of the income gap between males and females from the 60's to the 90's. Also, it's shocking to me how little modern (conventional) medicine knows about women's health issues, mainly menopause. We can do much better as a society. This is totally off topic but that is a great bike in the picture! Is that a Raleigh?

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blows my mind too. The wage discrepancy is another one of those issues that leaves me speechless. Good point about women's health issues...I've turned to alternative medicine which is very helpful for women's healthcare but of course this isn't covered by insurance. And the bike - amazing thing it was...a Peugeot. Wheels were quick-release and it was an innovation at the time. My parents were in England and bought it for me and all of us 5 kids used it at one time or another.

Many women I know have had to resort to alternative-Chinese medicine for menopause symptoms, conventional medicine is still in the Stone Age in terms of that. I didn't know Peugeot made bikes! I'm sure that would be a worth a lot now. The Raleigh folding bikes look very similar.