Motherhood Essays

World for women is still veiled within glass. A woman’s survival depends on combating policies that are rooted in systemic sexism. White or black, woman or man, hierarchy in America will prevail. Gender inequality is ubiquitous within the health care and education systems. Women cannot mobilize with the ease men …

In Macleod and Howell’s article “Public foetal images and the regulation of middle-class pregnancy in the online media: a view from South Africa” (2015), the problematic use of public fetal imaging is decontextualized from online media to show how these websites serve to regulate pregnant bodies. Specifically, Macleod and Howell …

Laura Owens is a contemporary American artist who has become one of the most influential painters of her generation due to her unique, witty, innovative, and experimental approach towards creating art. Making art was always a large part of her childhood, and she has had bold aspirations ever since her …

She adapts the style of to the content and circumstance of a particular novel. She uses this method in almost all her books. Quite prominent among these books are, In the Ditch (1972) and Second-Class Citizen (1974), which is a sequel to the first novel. These two are autobiographical and …

Freedom serves as a glimmering light of hope and promise, a symbolic representation of a life of complete liberty that allows for individuality and independence from the rest of society. When a culture, however, is plagued with the ideals of misogyny, freedom can be particularly difficult for women to attain. …

A mother’s love is indescribable and unconditional, becoming a mother is such a selfless act that comes with many sacrifices. Women go through body changes, as well as devote themselves to their child for their whole lives there’s no limit in which a mother wouldn’t cross for their children. In …

Child rearing is incredibly stressful. Adding school to a mother’s busy life increases stress levels immensely. So, why add school to an already stressful life? Moms want what is best for their children, thus maybe they return to school to better themselves and the lives of their children. When making …

This article was written by Maggie Downs, “Tim Gunn and a Leaky Shower: Welcome to My Life,” was about a woman named, Maggie who welcomed us into her life as a new mother of her son, Everest, she was only home one week and so far with a newborn I …

“Women make up almost half of the American workforce and families rely on women’s salaries to make ends meet: women are the primary or co-breadwinners in almost two-thirds of families in the United States (A Better Balance 2019).” Yet women still face many conflicts between their responsibility to work, and …

To begin with, the statistic that a woman makes eighty cents on the dollar that a man earns for the same work is simply false. It is a common misinterpretation of the unadjusted gender wage gap, which compares the median salaries of men and women that work full-time; Thus, a …