am sure many of you have heard or read the Shriver Report which talks about 50% of the U.S. workplace is now comprised of working mothers. I get that and that is important and many of these women have children and it is heavily focused on married women with children. I have to be honest I have only read parts of the over 700 page report but I admit I failed to notice something until I read a blog about the report. I found this blog on Wendy Braitman’s online website for singles called, First Person Singular: notes from an unmarried life” ( a way to thrive and survive being single). It has humor, great ideas; such as “what to do about a sex drought” and how a single woman can decide the pros and cons of being married (I really liked those) but it also offers other important blogs. The blog I am speaking about belongs to Dr Bella DePaula, a psychologist also writes for and about singles in this country. She wrote a blog and an two separate articles about the Shriver Report in Psychology Today titled “Shriver Report Serves Up Compulsory Marriage and Mothering” and “Shriver’s Report ” Woman’s Nation” is Actually a Wife and Mother’s Nation: The Evidence”. Both of these articles talk about the many biases and issues single women face each day, such as workplace discrimination for being single, and even in obtaining housing. She decribes that many singles have no idea where they fit or if they can fit. She also pointed out that the Shriver Report primarly focuses on married women and even more so about married women with children. Her point and mine is “What happens to all those single women who number over 47 million women and where do they really fit??”
I urge you to read the Shriver Report or read it again if you already have. This time read it with new eyes and look more closely at who they are NOT talking about (single women’s needs). I urge to listen to next week’s up close and personal conversation with Wendy Braitman about being a single woman and how you or someone you love can survive, thrive and grow as a single, amazing woman. She told me “women need to stop asking themselves: “What is wrong with me and why am I still single?” Wendy says there is nothing wrong with them and just because they do not fit what society thinks is right is not nor should it be the norm especially for women who are single. Remember “I am ok and you are ok?” If we could all just love the skin we are in I say we would be better off. I like smart woman who get it and and help each other……and Wendy and Bella are two smart women. Please join us and learn more about how you or someone you love can feel really good being a single unmarried woman and loving and enjoying who you really are. Wake up out there and get the facts and take those pretty heads out of the sand……..right now!!!
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